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Image courtesy of the Museo del Paesaggio, Palazzo Viani Dugnani, Verbania

Sessue Hayakawa (Sessue Hayakawa)

Year:

1919-1920

Dimensions (cm):

41 x 18 x 22

Dimensions (inches):

16.14 x 7.09 x 8.66

Medium:

Sculptures

Material:

plaster

Current location:

Verbania Pallanza, Museo del Paesaggio: inv. T n. 158

Description Provenance Exhibitions Bibliography

Between 1919 and 1920, when working on the monument for General Otis, Troubetzkoy had the opportunity to meet and portray some of the most well known actors of hollywood, including Mary Pickford and Sessue Hayakawa(1886-1973), the subject of the present plaster.

Paul Troubetzkoy (1866-1938), Italy, until 1938;
By descent to the heirs, Rhoda Muriel Marie Somerwell and Luigi Troubetzkoy;
Donated to the Museo del Paesaggio, 1938-1939

Museo del Paesaggio, Verbania, 1990, n. 172

J. Grioni," Paul Troubetzkoy a forgotten celebrity" in Apollo, vol 87, 1968, p. 462 ripr.;
J. Grioni, " Paul Troubetzkoy il principe scultore" in Arte Illustrata, nn. 41-42, maggio-giugno 1971 p. 39;
J. Grioni,"Prince Paul Troubetzkoy's portraits in bronze" in Antique Collector, vol. 55 n.10, ottobre 1984, p. 83;
S. Frezzotti, exh. cat., Paolo Troubetzkoy , 1990, p. 212 n. 172 ;
Paolo Troubetzkoy, La Collezione del Museo del Paesaggio, Palazzo Viani Dugnani, Verbania, 2017, p. 184