Lost wax bronze replica from original mold.
Author: Sirio Tofanari (1886-1969)
Period: mid '900
Siro Tofanari was a brilliant and gifted sculptor, graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, and a passionate Italian animalier, in the wake of the famous French animalier of the late nineteenth century.
His favorite subjects were in fact exotic animals such as gazelles, panthers, orangutans, parrots and many others, which he knew how to render in bronze in an extremely realistic and truthful way.
The satirist mother is a true example of high bronze casting, since every smallest part of the surface is chiseled by hand: the hairy legs, the elaborate horns, the bunches of grapes that the little faun eats and the incredible carapace of the turtle on which both are sitting.
Even if they are fantastic and almost fearful forest animals, in reality this sculptural group represents a real maternity, docile and affectionate, in which feelings of protection and love are expressed. This subject celebrates motherhood in a curious and unusual way. We see the depiction of a satiress holding her baby in her arms in a very sweet gesture.
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