BIOGRAPHY
1858 Born in Turin, Italy.
1928 Died in Milan, Italy.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna.
Medardo Rosso. Inventing Modern Sculpture (18 October 2024 – 23 February 2025).
Exhibition travelled: Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland (29 March – 10 August 2025). Catalogue.
2023 Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid. Medardo Rosso: Pioneer of Modern Sculpture
(22 September 2023 – 7 January 2024)
2019 Palazzo Altemps, Museo Nazionale Romano, Italy. Medardo Rosso
(10 October 2019 – 2 February 2020). Catalogue.
2018 Museo Novecento, Florence. Solo – Medardo Rosso
(20 December 2018 – 28 March 2019). Catalogue.
Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent. Medardo Rosso: Pioneer of Modern Sculpture
(17 March – 24 June). Catalogue.
2017 Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, London.
Medardo Rosso: Sight Unseen and his Encounters with London
(22 November 2017 – 10 February 2018). Catalogue.
2016 Pulitzer Arts Foundation, Saint Louis. Medardo Rosso: Experiments in Light and Form
(11 November 2016 – 13 May 2017). Catalogue.
Amedeo Porro Fine Arts, SA. / Peter Freeman, Inc. at Trinity Fine Art, London.
Medardo Rosso: Two Rare Waxes (23 June – 15 July). Catalogue.
Peter Freeman, Inc., New York. Medardo Rosso: Ten Bronzes
(14 April – 27 May). Catalogue.
2015 Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Milan. Medardo Rosso: La luce e la materia
(18 February – 31 May). Catalogue.
2014 Center for Italian Modern Art, New York. Medardo Rosso
(17 October 2014 – 27 June 2015). Catalogue.
Peter Freeman, Inc., New York. Medardo Rosso: Bambino Ebreo
(5 June – 25 July)
2013 Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner KG, Berlin.
Medardo Rosso: Le sculpteur de la Lumière. 12 Skulpturen (26 April – 19 June). Catalogue.
2011 Amedeo Porro Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Milan. Rosso: Opere scelte
(4 May – 19 June). Catalogue.
2008 Peter Freeman, Inc., New York. Medardo Rosso,
curated by Sharon Hecker (11 September – 1 November). Catalogue.
2007 Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice. Rosso. The Transient Form,
curated by Paola Mola and Fabio Vittucci (22 September 2007 – 6 January 2008). Catalogue.
2004 Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy.
Medardo Rosso: Le origini della scultura moderna, curated by Luciano Caramel
(28 May – 22 August). Exhibition travelled: Galleria civica d'arte moderna e contemporanea
di Torino, Italy (9 September – 28 November). Catalogue.
2003 Kunst Museum Winterthur, Switzerland. Medardo Rosso
(6 September – 23 November). Exhibition travelled: Stiftung Wilhelm-Lehmbruck Museum,
Duisburg, Germany (14 December 2003 – 28 March 2004). Catalogue.
Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Medardo Rosso: Second Impressions (19 July – 26 October). Exhibition travelled:
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri (21 November 2003 – 29 February 2004);
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas (3 April – 20 June 2004). Catalogue.
1996 Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Medardo Rosso
(7 November 1996 – 23 February 1997). Catalogue.
1994 Whitechapel Gallery, London. Medardo Rosso
(25 February – 24 April). Exhibition travelled: Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh
(5 May – 26 June); The Henri Moore Institute, Leeds, UK (14 July – 20 August). Catalogue.
1993 Palazzo Migliorati, San Miniato, Italy. Medardo Rosso – Disegni e sculture
(6–27 November). Catalogue.
1988 Kent Gallery, New York. Medardo Rosso. Impressions in Wax and Bronze 1882–1906
(8 November – 14 December). Exhibition travelled: Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo
(February – March 1989); David Grob Ltd., London (May – June 1989). Catalogue.
1985 Galleria Pieter Coray, Lugano. Medardo Rosso,
curated by Luciano Caramel (April – May). Catalogue.
1984 Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany. Medardo Rosso 1958–1928
(20 January – 11 March). Catalogue.
1979 Palazzo Cuttica, Alessandria, Italy. Medardo Rosso
(21 December 1979 – 31 January 1980). Catalogue.
Palazzo della Permanente, Milan. Mostra di Medardo Rosso (1858–1928)
(January – March). Catalogue.
1963 The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Medardo Rosso, 1858–1928
(2 October – 23 November). Catalogue.
1958 Peridot Gallery, New York.
The First Exhibition in America of Sculpture by Medardo Rosso, 1858–1928
(15 December 1958 – 16 January 1959). Catalogue.
1946 Galleria S. Spirito, Milan. I Mostra Postuma Milanese Di Medardo Rosso
(January). Catalogue.
1923 Bottega di Poesia, Milan. Mostra personale delle opere di Medardo Rosso
(24 March – 8 April). Catalogue.
1906 Eugène Cremetti Gallery, London. Medardo Rosso’s Impressions
(December). Catalogue.
1905 Kunstsalon Artaria, Vienna. Medardo Rosso, Paris Bronzen, Impressionen in Wachs
(February – June). Catalogue.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Latvijas Nacionālais mākslas muzejs, Riga. Light from Italy: From Fattori to Morandi
(5 July – 30 November)
Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris. Dans le Flou, une autre vision de l’art de 1945 à nos jours
(30 April – 18 August). Exhibition will travel: CaixaForum Madrid, Spain
(16 September 2025 – 12 April 2026); CaixaForum Barcelone, Spain
(19 May 19 – 27 September 2026). Catalogue.
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth. Cast in bronze
(29 March – 28 September)
2024 Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy. Through the Floods
(27 October 2024 – 16 February 2025)
Peter Freeman, Inc., Paris. En travaux
(16–26 October)
Galleria civica d'arte moderna e contemporanea di Torino, Italy. Le Collezioni
(16 October 2024 – 16 March 2025)
Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany.
Courage: Lehmbruck and the Avant-Garde (16 June – 6 October)
Galleria Russo, Rome.
Form and Matter: The Great Italian Sculpture of the Twentieth Century (2–30 March)
2023 Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent. Among Friends
(25 November 2023 – 28 April 2024)
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany. Outstanding! The Relief from Rodin to Taeuber-Arp
(13 October 2023 – 25 February 2024)
Städel Museum, Frankfurt. Outstanding! The Relief from Rodin to Picasso
(24 May – 17 September)
2022 Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Japan. Collection Reflection and Inversion
(15 October 2022 – 29 January 2023)
Middlebury College Museum of Art, Vermont.
Contemporary to Classical: Highlights from the New Collection Handbook
(28 January – 7 August)
Center for Italian Modern Art, New York. Staging Injustice: Italian Art 1880–1917
(25 January – 18 June). Catalogue.
2021 Casa Cavazzini, Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Udine, Italy.
The Shape of Infinity (16 October 2021 – 27 March 2022)
Centre Pompidou-Metz, France. Arcimboldo Face to Face
(29 May – 22 November)
2020 Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz.
Principally Painting: Works from the Hilti Art Foundation
(6 November 2020 – 15 September 2021)
Peter Freeman, Inc., New York. In Situ: a changing installation
(15 September 2020 – 20 February 2021)
Städel Museum, Frankfurt. En Passant: Impressionism in Sculpture
(19 March – 25 October)
Gagosian, New York. Duino Elegies
(5 March – 27 June)
2019 Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz.
Epidermis, Conditio Humana, Cosmos: Works from the Hilti Art Foundation
(1 November 2019 – 11 October 2020)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. 501: 19th Century Innovators
(21 October 2019 – Fall 2021)
Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London.
Who’s Afraid of Drawing? Works on Paper from the Ramo Collection
(17 April – 23 June). Catalogue.
Tommaso Calabro, Milan. Soft Power: Rosso – Morandi – Ziegler
(3 April – 15 June)
2018 Casa Masaccio centro per l'arte contemporanea, San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy.
De Scultura (24 November 2018 – 13 January 2019)
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz.
Rosso, Klee, Sonnier & more. Works from the Hilti Art Foundation
(9 November 2018 – 17 March 2019)
Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy.
Black Hole: Art and materiality from Informal to Invisible
(4 October 2018 – 6 January 2019)
2017 Galleria civica d'arte moderna e contemporanea di Torino, Italy.
Si riallestisce la GAM. 1863–1965 Storie, Direzioni, Visioni
(20 December 2017 – 20 December 2018)
Brun Fine Art, Milan. Novecento II
(29 June – 29 July)
2016 Kunstmuseum Den Haag, the Netherlands.
From Rodin to Bourgeois: Sculpture in the 20th century
(15 October 2016 – 22 January 2017)
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence.
Discoveries and Massacres: Ardengo Soffici and the Avant-Garde in Florence
(27 September 2016 – 8 January 2017)
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas. A Work in Progress: Plaster in the Nasher Collection
(23 July – 9 October)
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany. The Looser Collection. Dialogues
(29 April – 30 October)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible
(18 March – 4 September). Catalogue.
2015 Buchmann Galerie, Berlin. Figure
(11 December 2015 – 6 February 2016)
2014 Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam.
Brancusi, Rosso, Man Ray: Framing Sculpture (8 February – 11 May). Catalogue.
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York. Diana Al-Hadid: Regarding Medardo Rosso
(8 February – 19 March). Catalogue.
2012 Ben Brown Fine Arts, London.
From de Chirico to Cattelan: A Survey of 20th Century Italian Art
(8 October – 30 November). Catalogue.
2011 Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice.
1900–1961: Italian Art in the Guggenheim Collections (26 February – 5 June)
2010 Richard Gray Gallery, New York. Modern and Contemporary Sculpture
(16 September – 23 October)
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York. Telling Tales
(30 July 2010 – 17 April 2011)
2009 Forum Gallery, New York. The Platonic Ideal
(1 October – 28 November)
Palazzo Reale, Milan. Scapigliatura. Un pandemonio per cambiare l’arte
(25 June – 22 November). Catalogue.
Museo Diego Aragona Pignatelli Cortes, Naples. Gemito
(29 March – 5 July). Catalogue.
Palazzo Reale, Milan. Futurismo 1909–2009. Velocità+Arte+Azione
(6 February – 7 June). Catalogue.
2008 Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas. Beyond the Grasp: Sculpture Transcending the Physical
(15 March – 31 August)
Scuderie Papali, Palazzo del Quirinale, Rome. Ottocento, da Canova al Quarto Stato
(28 February – 10 June). Catalogue.
Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London.
A Decade of Discovery: Ten Years of the Estorick Collection (16 January – 6 April)
2007 Palazzo Strozzi, Florence.
Cézanne a Firenze due collezionisti e la mostra dell’Impressionismo nel 1910
(2 March – 23 July). Catalogue.
Fondazione Cariverona, Verona. Peggy Guggenheim: un amore per la scultura
(24 February – 22 April). Catalogue.
2006 Palazzo Reale, Milan. Boccioni: pittore scultore futurista
(6 October 2006 – 7 January 2007). Catalogue.
2005 Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice. Brancusi: The White Work
(19 February – 22 May). Catalogue.
2004 The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Painting & Sculpture II
(20 November 2004 – 5 August 2015)
Musée de la Vie Romantique, Paris. Au coeur de l’Impressionisme. La famille Rouart
(3 February – 13 June). Catalogue.
2003 Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Ferrara, Italy. Degas and the Italians in Paris
(14 July – 16 November). Exhibition travelled: Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
(12 December 2003 – 29 February 2004). Catalogue.
2002 Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy.
Le stanze dell-arte. Figure e immagini del xx secolo
(15 December 2002 – 27 April 2003). Catalogue.
Spazio Oberdan, Milan.
La seduzione della materia. Scultori italiani da Medardo Rosso alle generazioni recenti
(23 March – 12 May). Catalogue.
2001 Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan. Italian Sculpture of the 20th Century
(21 April – 10 June). Exhibition travelled: City Museum of Art, Kagoshima, Japan
(19 July – 26 August); The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Japan (4 September – 28 October);
Hokkaido Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo, Japan (3 November – 24 December);
Shimane Art Museum, Japan (2 January – 24 February 2002). Catalogue.
Palazzo della Permanente, Milan.
Frammenti. La nostalgia dell’unità perduta nella scultura del XIX e XX secolo. Catalogue.
2000 Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome.
Italies. Italian Art Facing Modernity, 1880–1910 (22 December 2000 – 11 March 2001).
Exhibition travelled: Musée d’Orsay, Paris (9 April – 15 July 2001). Catalogue.
Museo del Corso, Rome. Il ‘900 scolpito da Rodin a Picasso
(28 October 2000 – 4 February 2001). Catalogue.
Palazzina dei Giardini, Modena, Italy. L’eroe borghese. Temi e figure da Schiele a Warhol
(9 April – 16 July). Catalogue.
1999 Palazzo Cavour, Turin. Da Segantini a Balla. Un viaggio nella luce
(3 December 1999 – 27 February 2000). Catalogue.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California. The Artist and the Camera:
Degas to Picasso (2 October 1999 – 4 January 2000). Exhibition travelled:
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas (1 February – 7 May 2000);
Fundación del Museo Guggenheim, Bilbao (12 June – 10 September 2000). Catalogue.
1998 Palazzo Reale, Milan. L’anima e il volto
(30 October 1998 – 14 March 1999). Catalogue.
1997 Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner KG, Berlin. Medardo Rosso – Gotthard Graubner
(6 September – 31 October). Exhibition travelled: Graphisches Kabinett,
Wolfgang Werner KG, Bremen (13 November – 19 December). Catalogue.
Palazzo Martinengo, Brescia, Italy. Da Boccioni a Sironi. Il mondo di Margherita Sarfatti
(13 July – 12 October). Catalogue.
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. L’Empreinte
(19 February – 12 May). Catalogue.
1996 Ancienne Douane, Strasbourg, France. Eugène Carrière: 1849–1906
(19 October 1996 – 9 February 1997). Catalogue.
1995 46th La Biennale di Venezia, Italy. Identità e alterità. Figure del corpo
(11 June – 15 October). Catalogue.
1994 Albertinum, Dresden. Das Albertinum vor 100 Jahren – die Skulpturensammlung Georg Treus
(18 December 1994 – 12 March 1995). Catalogue.
Kunst Museum Winterthur, Switzerland.
Von de Wand in den Raum: Skulpturen, Reliefs und Objekte aus der Sammlung
(28 May – 21 August). Catalogue.
Ca’ Pesaro, Venice.
Dalle Biennali storiche a Ca’ Pesaro: scultura e grafica nelle raccolte della Galleria
(1 February – 13 March). Catalogue.
1993 Kunst Museum Winterthur, Switzerland.
Von Bonnard bis Léger: Französische Kunst 1880–1940 aus der Sammlung
(5 June – 12 September). Catalogue.
1992 Ancienne Douane and Palais Rohan/Galerie Robert Heitz, Strasbourg, France.
Les Modernes 1870–1950: En préfiguration du
Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg (17 July – 31 December). Catalogue.
Albertinum, Dresden. Verborgene Schätze der Skulpturensammlung
(17 May – 9 August). Catalogue.
1991 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Drawings: Additions to the Collection
(23 May – 29 September)
1990 Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid.
Memoria del futuro. Arte Italiano desde las primeras vanguardias a la posguerra
(31 October 1990 – 30 January 1991). Catalogue.
Palazzo Viani Dugnani, Museo del Paesaggio, Verbania Pallanza, Italy.
Paolo Troubetzkoy 1866–1938 (29 April – 29 July). Catalogue.
Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Le corps en morceaux
(5 February – 3 June). Exhibition travelled: Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main
(23 June – 26 August). Catalogue.
1989 Galleria Pieter Coray, Lugano, Switzerland. L’impressionismo nella scultura
(April – May). Catalogue.
1988 Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam.
Ottocento/Novecento: Italiaanse kunst 1870–1910 (17 September – 27 November).
Catalogue.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan.
Il dinamismo della creazione: mostra della scultura figurativa italiana del XX° secolo
(8 June – 31 July). Exhibition travelled: Nigata City Art Museum, Japan
(6 August – 11 September); The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan
(17 September – 3 November); Shimonoseki City Art Museum, Japan
(12 November – 23 December); The Museum of Modern Art, Fukuyama, Japan
(3 January – 12 February 1989). Catalogue.
Ancienne Douane, Strasbourg, France.
À qui ressemblons-nous? Le portrait dans les musées de Strasbourg
(22 April – 31 July). Catalogue.
1986 Palazzo Grassi, Venice. Futurismo & Futurismi
(3 May – 15 October). Catalogue.
Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris. La sculpture française au XIXe siècle
(10 April – 28 July). Catalogue.
1985 Cabinet des estampes, Geneva. Pygmalion photographie. La sculpture devant la caméra
(28 June – 3 September). Catalogue.
1983 Galleria Pieter Coray, Lugano, Switzerland. A immagine di donna
Catalogue.
1982 Palazzo Reale, Milan. Boccioni a Milano
(December 1982 – March 1983). Catalogue.
1981 Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany.
Hommage à Lehmbruck. Lehmbruck in seiner Zeit
(25 October 1981 – 3 January 1982). Catalogue.
1976 Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond. Italian Sculpture
(8 March – 18 April). Exhibition travelled: University of Virginia Art Museum,
Charlottesville (27 April – 30 May). Catalogue.
1975 Aarauger Kunsthaus, Switzerland. Italienische Kleinplastiken seit 1900
(9 May – 15 June). Catalogue.
1973 Hayward Gallery, London. Pioneers of Modern Sculpture
(20 July – 25 September). Catalogue.
1972 The Hakone Open-Air Museum, Japan. Scultori italiani contemporanei
(27 May – 30 November). Catalogue.
1971 Musée Bourdelle, Paris. Polychromies à travers les ages et les civilisations
(June – September). Catalogue.
1970 Palazzo della Permanente, Milan. Mostra del divisionismo italiano
(March – April). Catalogue.
1966 Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland. Twentieth Century Italian Art
(25 October – 23 November). Catalogue.
Palazzo della Permanente, Milan. Mostra della Scapigliatura
(May – June). Catalogue.
1962 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Modern Sculpture from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection
(3 October 1962 – 6 June 1963). Catalogue.
1961 Galleria dell’Annunciata, Milan. Pittura e scultura di otto artisti:
Campigli, Carrà, Morandi, Sironi, Manzù, Marini, Martini, Medardo Rosso
(2–24 November). Catalogue.
Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Germany. Polaritat. Das Apollinische und das Dyonysische
(2 June – 16 July). Exhibition travelled: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Netherlands
(22 July – 18 September). Catalogue.
1960 The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Recent Acquisitions
(21 December 1960 – 5 February 1961)
Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris.
Les sources du XX siècle. Les arts en Europe de 1884 à 1914
(November 1960 – January 1961). Catalogue.
1959 The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Recent Acquisitions
(3 December 1959 – 31 January 1960)
1953 Villa Mirabello, Varese, Italy. 2° Rassegna Internazionale di scultura all’aperto
(29 August – 27 September). Catalogue.
1952 Palazzo al Valentino, Turin. Mostra del centenario 1842–1942
(22 May – June). Catalogue.
1950 25th La Biennale di Venezia, Italy.
(3 June – 15 October). Catalogue.
Palazzo della Permanente, Milan. 50 anni d’arte a Milano dal divisionismo ad oggi
(31 January – 15 March). Catalogue.
1931 1st Quadriennale di Roma, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Italy.
Prima Quadriennale d’Arte Nazionale (3 January – 15 June). Catalogue.
1929 Grand Palais, Paris. Catalogue des Ouvrages de Peinture, Sculpture, Dessin, Gravure,
Architecture et Art Décoratif (3 November – 22 December). Catalogue.
Palazzo Reale, Milan. Mostra commemorativa delle opere di Tranquillo Cremona
nel cinquantesimo anneversario della morte (12 April – 12 May). Catalogue.
1926 Palazzo della Permanente, Milan. Mostra del Novecento Italiano
(February – March). Catalogue.
1921 Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Venice.
Mostra straordinaria nel Palazzo del l'Esposizione ai Giardini Pubblici
(May – September). Catalogue.
1920 Palazzo Reale, Venice. Mostra Nazionale d’Arte Sacra
(September – October). Catalogue.
1914 11th La Biennale di Venezia, Italy.
XI Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte della città di Venezia (June – September). Catalogue.
1911 Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome. Esposizione Internationale di Roma
Catalogue.
1910 Lyceum Club, Florence. Prima mostra italiana dell’impressionismo.
Opere di Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Jean-Louis Forain, Paul Gauguin,
Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Medardo Rosso,
Henri Matisse, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Vincent van Gogh (April – May). Catalogue.
1909 Musée Moderne Bruxelles, Belgium. Salon annuel du Cercle d’Art, Les Indépendants
(12 June – 4 July). Catalogue.
1907 École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris.
Exposition des Acquisitions et Commandes de l’État. Catalogue.
1904 Grand Palais, Paris. Peinture, Dessin, Sculpture, Gravure, Architecture et Art Décoratif
(15 October – 15 November). Catalogue.
1903 Wiener Sezession, Austria. Ausstellung der Vereinigung bildender Künstler Österreichs
Secession Wien: entwicklung des Impressionismus in Malerei und Plastik
(17 January – 1 March). Catalogue.
1900 Palais des Champs-Élysées, Paris. Exposition Décennale des Beaux-Arts de 1889 à 1900
(June – September). Catalogue.
1889 Palais des Champs-Élysées, Paris. Exposition Universelle de 1889
(June – September). Catalogue.
1888 Albert Hall, West Brompton, London. The Italian Exhibition in London
(July – August). Catalogue.
1887 Venice, Italy. Esposizione Nazionale Artistica. Venezia 1887
(21 May – 31 October). Catalogue.
1886 Palais des Champs-Élysées, Paris. Salon de 1886
(30 April – 30 June). Catalogue.
1885 Palais des Champs-Élysées, Paris. Salon de 1885
(26 April – 15 June). Catalogue.
1883 Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome. Esposizione di Belle Arti in Roma 1883
(21 January – 1 July). Catalogue.
1882 Accademia di Brera, Milan. Accademia di Belle Arti in Milano. Esposizione 1882
(28 August – 30 September). Catalogue.
1881 Palazzo del Senato, Milan. Il Libro d’Oro per chi visita la famosa Indisposizione di Belle Arti
(11 June – 3 November). Catalogue.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2024 Eipeldauer, Heike, ed. Medardo Rosso. Inventing Modern Sculpture
(Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, 2024). Exhibition catalogue.
Hecker, Sharon, et al. Medardo Rosso: La Portinaia
(Tortona: Fondazione Cassa Di Risparmio di Tortona, 2024).
2022 Ginex, Giovanna, ed. Staging Injustice: Italian Art 1880–1917
(New York: Magonza Center for Italian Modern Art, Arezzo, 2022). Exhibition catalogue.
2020 Hecker, Sharon, ed. Finding Lost Wax: The Disappearance and Recovery of an Ancient
Casting Technique and the Experiments of Medardo Rosso (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2020).
Moure, Gloria, ed. Medardo Rosso: Pioneer of Modern Sculpture
(Barcelona: Poligrafa, 2020). Exhibition catalogue.
2019 Zatti, Paola, et al. Medardo Rosso (Verona: Electa, 2019). Exhibition catalogue.
2018 Hecker, Sharon, and Julia Peyton-Jones.
Medardo Rosso. Sight Unseen and his Encounters with London
(London: Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, 2018). Exhibition catalogue.
Hecker, Sharon, and Tamara Schenkenberg. Medardo Rosso: Experiments in Light and Form
(Saint Louis: Pulitzer Arts Foundation, 2018). Exhibition catalogue.
Mola, Paola, Francesco Guzzetti, and Giulia Arganini. Medardo Rosso: Femme à la voilette
(Lugano: Amedeo Porro Fine Arts, 2018).
2017 Hecker, Sharon.
A Moment's Monument: Medardo Rosso and the International Origins of Modern Sculpture
(Oakland: University of California Press, 2017).
2016 Baum, Kelly, Andrea Bayer, and Sheena Wagstaff. Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016). Exhibition catalogue.
Fles, Etha. Medardo Rosso: Ten Bronzes (New York: Peter Freeman, Inc., 2016).
Exhibition catalogue.
Guzzetti, Francesco. Medardo Rosso: Two Rare Waxes
(New York: Peter Freeman, Inc., 2016). Exhibition catalogue.
2015 Zatti, Paola, et al. Medardo Rosso: La luce e la materia
(Milan: Galleria d'Arte Moderna, 2015). Exhibition catalogue.
2014 Fabi, Chiara, Francesco Guzzetti, and Heather Ewing. Medardo Rosso
(New York: Center for Italian Modern Art, 2014). Exhibition catalogue.
Van der Coelen, Peter, et al. Brancusi, Rosso, Man Ray: Framing Sculpture
(Rotterdam: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, 2014). Exhibition catalogue.
2013 Wegener, Maria. Medardo Rosso: 12 Skulpturen, le sculpteur de la lumière
(Berlin: Kunsthandel, 2013). Exhibition catalogue.
2012 Clark, Elizabeth, Emilie Ortolan, and Amedeo Porro.
From de Chirico to Cattelan: A Survey of 20th Century Italian Art
(London: Ben Brown Fine Arts, 2012). Exhibition catalogue.
2011 Mola, Paola. Rosso: Opere scelte (Milan: Skira, 2011). Exhibition catalogue.
2009 Mola, Paola, and Fabio Vittucci. Medardo Rosso: Catalogo ragionato della scultura
(Milan: Skira, 2009).
2008 Hecker, Sharon, and Louis Vauxcelles. Medardo Rosso
(New York: Peter Freeman, Inc., 2008). Exhibition catalogue.
2007 Bardazzi, Francesca.
Cézanne a Firenze: due collezionisti e la mostra dell'impressionismo del 1910
(Milan: Electa, 2007). Exhibition catalogue.
Mola, Paola, and Fabio Vittucci. Rosso: The Transient Form (Milan: Skira, 2007).
Exhibition catalogue.
2006 Bacci, Francesca. "Sculpting the immaterial, modelling the light: presenting
Medardo Rosso's photographic oeuvre," Sculpture Journal (2006), pp. 223–38.
Di Majo, Elena, and Matteo Lanfranconi.
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna. Le collezioni. Il XIX secolo
(Milan: Electa, 2006). Exhibition catalogue.
Johnson, Geraldine A.
"'All Concrete Shapes Dissolve in Light': Photographing Sculpture from Rodin to Brancusi",
Sculpture Journal, vol. 15 (2006), pp. 199–222.
Mola, Paola. Rosso: Trasferimenti (Milan: Skira, 2006).
Rebora, Sergio, and Mariangela Agliati Ruggia. Il segno della Scapigliatura
(Milan: Silvana, Cinisello Balsamo, 2006). Exhibition catalogue.
2005 Celli, Elisa, ed. Medardo Rosso: Lettere a Giuseppe Ricci Oddi
(Piacenza: Galleria d'Arte Moderna Ricci Oddi, 2005).
D'Ayala Valva, Margherita.
La collezione Sforni: il "giornale pittorico" di un mecenate fiorentino (1909–1939)
(Florence: L.S. Olschki, 2005).
Zólyom, Franciska. Medardo Rosso, 1858–1928 (Budapest: M. Képzőműv. Egy, 2005).
2004 Bekker, Gerd. Figürliche Bronzen von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart:
Bestandskatalog der Sammlung des Grassimuseums Leipzig, Museum für Kunsthandwerk
(Leipzig: Grassimuseum, 2004).
Caramel, Luciano. Medardo Rosso: Le origini della scultura moderna
(Milan: Skira, 2004). Exhibition catalogue.
2003 Brunk, Birgit, et al. Medardo Rosso (Düsseldorf: Richter Verlag, 2003). Exhibition catalogue.
Cooper, Harry, and Sharon Hecker. Medardo Rosso: Second Impressions
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003). Exhibition catalogue.
Dumas, Anne, ed. Degas e gli Italiani a Parigi (Ferrara: Ferrara Arte, 2003).
Exhibition catalogue.
Giudici, Lorella. Medardo Rosso: Scritti Sulla Scultura (Milan: Abscondita SRL, 2003).
Levi della Torre, Stefano. Zone di turbolenza (Milan: Feltrinelli, 2003).
Lista, Giovanni. Medardo Rosso: Scultura e fotografia (Milan: 5 Continents, 2003).
Rodriguez, Jean-François. Rictus, Soffici e Apollinaire, paladini dello scultore
Medardo Rosso tra Parigi e Firenze (1904–1929) (Prato: Pentalinea, 2003).
2002 Belli, Gabriella. Le stanze dell'arte: figure e immagini del XX secolo
(Milan: Skira, 2002). Exhibition catalogue.
2000 Hecker, Sharon. "Ambivalent Bodies: Medardo Rosso's Brera Petition,"
The Burlington Magazine, vol. 142, no. 1173 (December 2000), pp. 773–77.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Medardo Rosso: Le Mephisto de la sculpture
(Paris: l'Échoppe, 2000).
Piantoni, Gianna, and Anne Pingeot. Italie 1880–1910: arte alla prova della modernità
(Turin: U. Allemandi, 2000). Exhibition catalogue.
Rivosecchi, Valerio. Il ‘900 scolpito da Rodin à Picasso (Rome: De Luca, 2000).
Exhibition catalogue.
1999 Becker, Jane. "Medardo Rosso: Photographing Sculpture and Sculpting Photography."
In The Artist and the Camera. Degas to Picasso, ed. Dorothy Kosinski
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999). Exhibition catalogue.
1998 Caroli, Flavio, ed. L'anima e il volto. Ritratto e fisiognomica da Leonardo a Bacon
(Milan: Electa, 1998). Exhibition catalogue.
Morel, Philippe, et al. L'Art Italien de la Renaissance à 1905
(Paris: Citadelles & Mazenod, 1998).
1997 Hofmann, Werner. Medardo Rosso – Gotthard Graubner
(Bremen: Wolfgang Werner KG, 1997). Exhibition catalogue.
Moure, Gloria, et al. Medardo Rosso (Barcelona: Ediciones Poligrafa, S.A., 1997).
Exhibition catalogue.
Pontiggia, Elena. Da Boccioni a Sironi: Il mondo di Margherita Sarfatti
(Milan: Skira, 1997). Exhibition catalogue.
1996 Hecker, Sharon. "Medardo Rosso's First Commission," The Burlington Magazine,
vol. 138, no. 1125 (December 1996), pp. 817–22.
Sheps, Marc, ed. L’Art du 20e Siècle: Museum Ludwig Cologne
(Cologne: Taschen, 1996).
1994 Caramel, Luciano. Medardo Rosso (London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1994).
Exhibition catalogue.
Fagioli, Marco. "Medardo Rosso a San Miniato,"
Bollettino dell’Accademia degli Euteleti di San Miniato al Tedesco (1994), 60, pp. 9–14.
Fezzi, Elda. Medardo Rosso. Scritti e pensieri. 1889–1927 (Cremona: Turris, 1994).
Knoll, Kordelia. Das Albertinum vor 100 Jahren: die Skulpturensammlung Georg Treus
(Dresden: Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen, 1994). Exhibition catalogue.
Lista, Giovanni. Medardo Rosso: destin d’un sculpteur 1858–1928 (Paris: L’Echoppe, 1994).
Lista, Giovanni. Medardo Rosso: la sculpture impressionniste (Paris: L’Echoppe, 1994).
Longari, Elisabetta, et al.
Milano Brera 1859–1915: I premi Brera dalla Scapigliatura al Simbolismo
(Codogno: Cassa rurale ed artigiana del Basso Lodigiano, 1994). Exhibition catalogue.
1993 Bentein-Stoelen, Marie-Rose.
Collection catalogue of the Open-air Museum of Sculpture Middelheim
(Antwerp: Openluchtmuseum voor Beeldhouwkunst, 1993).
Fagioli, Marco. Medardo Rosso: Disegni e Sculture
(Florence: Opus Libri, 1993). Exhibition catalogue.
Maggio Serra, Rosanna, ed. L'Ottocento: catalogo delle opere esposte
(Milan: Fabbri, 1993).
1992 Brouwer, Marianne, and Rieja Brouns. Sculpture in the Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller
(Amsterdam: J. Enschedé, 1992).
1990 Colli, Giorgio. La Sapienza greca (Milan: Adelphi, 1990).
Pingeot, Anne, ed. Le Corps en morceaux (Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1990).
Exhibition catalogue.
1988 Arisi, Ferdinando. Galleria d'arte moderna Ricci Oddi, Piacenza (Piacenza: Tip Le Co, 1988).
Caramel, Luciano. Medardo Rosso: Impressions in Wax and Bronze 1882–1906
(New York: Kent Fine Art, 1988). Exhibition catalogue.
Colli, Giorgio. La natura ama nascondersi (Milan: Adelphi, 1988).
1987 Anzani, Giovanni, in Caramel, Luciano.
Arte svelata: collezionismo privato a Como dall’Ottocento a oggi
(Milan: Mazzotta, 1987), p. 47. Exhibition catalogue.
1985 Brelich, Angelo. Il cammino dell’umanità (Rome: Bulzoni, 1985).
Caramel, Luciano. Medardo Rosso (Lugano: Galleria Pieter Coray, 1985).
Exhibition catalogue.
De Sanna, Jole. Medardo Rosso: O la creazione dello spazio moderna (Milan: Mursia, 1985).
Mason, Rainer Michael, et al. Pygmalion photographe. La sculpture devant la caméra
(Geneva: Cabinet des estampes, 1985). Exhibition catalogue.
Stefani, Paolo. Oscar Ghiglia e il suo tempo (Florence: Vallecchi, 1985).
1984 Weiermair, Peter. Medardo Rosso 1985–1928
(Frankfurt am Main: Der Kunstverein, 1984). Exhibition catalogue.
1981 Anzani, Giovanni, and Luciano Caramel. Scultura moderna in Lombardia 1900–1950
(Milan: Cassa di risparmio delle provincie lombarde, 1981).
1980 Finzi, Gilberto. Racconti neri della scapigliatura (Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori, 1980).
Exhibition catalogue.
Zellini, Paolo. Breve storia dell’infinito (Milan: Adelphi, 1980).
1979 Caramel, Luciano. Medardo Rosso
(Alessandria: Comune di Alessandria, Assessorato Cultura e Teatro, 1979).
Exhibition catalogue.
Caramel, Luciano, and Paola Mola. Mostra di Medardo Rosso (1858–1928)
(Milan: Societe per le Belle Arti ed Esposizione Permanante, 1979). Exhibition catalogue.
1973 Munari, Carlo. Arte Moderna dall’età Neoclassica alla Pop Art
(Novara: Istituto Geografico de Agostini, 1973).
Pyke, E.J. A Biographical Dictionary of Wax Modellers
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973).
1970 Bellonzi, Fortunato. Moderne italienische Bildhauer:
Wanderausstellung von Bronze-Kleinplastiken in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
(Rome: Ente Autonomo Esposizione Nazionale Quadriennale d’Arte, 1970).
1969 Carlone Mongelli, Gioconda. Medardo Rosso. Note critiche e poesie inedite
(Catania: Libreria Urzi Editrice, 1969).
1967 Hamilton, George Heard. Painting and Sculpture in Europe. 1800 to 1940
(Harmondworth: Penguin Books, 1967).
1966 Caramel, Luciano. Mostra della Scapigliatura
(Milan: Società per le belle arti ed espozione permanente, 1966). Exhibition catalogue.
Marchiori, Giuseppe. I Maestri Della Scultura: Medardo Rosso
(Milan: Fratelli Fabbri Editori, 1966).
1964 Ballo, Guido. La linea dell’arte italiana dal simbolismo alle opere moltiplicate
(Rome: Edizioni Mediterranee, 1964).
1963 Scolari Barr, Margaret. Medardo Rosso
(New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1963). Exhibition catalogue.
1962 Brizio, Anna Maria. Ottocento, Novecento
(Turin: Unione Tipographico-editrice Torinese, 1962).
Cassou, Jean, Emile Langui, and Nikolaus Pevsner. Le origini dell'arte moderna
(Milan: Electa, 1962).
Scolari Barr, Margaret. Medardo Rosso and his Dutch Patroness Etha Fles
(Leiden: Brill, 1962).
1960 Marchiori, Giuseppe. Scultura italiana dell’Ottocento (Milan: Mondadori, 1960).
Prezzolini, Giuseppe. Il Tempo della Voce (Milan: Coedizione Longanesi, 1960).
1959 The First Exhibition in America of Sculpture by Medardo Rosso
(New York: Peridot Gallery, 1959). Exhibition catalogue.
Nicodemi, Giorgio. Medardo Rosso: 1858–1928 (New York: Star Press, 1959).
Exhibition catalogue.
1955 Giedion-Welcker, Carola. Contemporary Sculpture. An Evolution in Volume and Space
(New York: G. Wittenborn, 1955).
1950 Barbantini, Nino. Medardo Rosso (Venice: Neri Pozza, 1950).
Borghi, Mino. Medardo Rosso (Milan: Edizioni del Milione, 1950).
Soffici, Ardengo. Trenta artisti moderni italiani e stranieri (Florence: Vallecchi, 1950).
1946 Dradi, Carlo. I Mostra Postuma Milanese Di Medardo Rosso
(Milan: Galleria S. Spirito, 1946). Exhibition catalogue.
1945 Papini, Giovanni. Arte Moderna Italiana N. 35 – Medardo Rosso (Milan: Ulico Hoepli, 1945).
1938 Valéry, Paul. Degas, Danse, Dessin (Paris: Gallimard, 1938).
1936 Fles, Etha. Drie visionnaire kunstenaars van onzen tijd:
Medardo Rosso, Gerardo Dottori, Ernesto Masuelli (Haarlem: J. Enschede, 1936).
1931 Cozzani, Ettore. Medardo Rosso con tutte le sue opere riprodotte in quaranta tavole fuori testo
(Milan: L’Eroica, 1931).
1930 Scheiwiller, Giovanni. Art Italien Moderne (Paris: Éditions Bonaparte, 1930).
1929 Soffici, Ardengo. Medardo Rosso (1858–1928) con 42 illustrazioni (Florence: Vallecchi, 1929).
1927 Barbantini, Nino. La Galleria internazionale d’arte moderna a Venezia
(Milan: Fratelli Treves, 1927).
1926 Ambrosini, Luigi. Teocrito, Ariosto: minori e minimi (Milan: Corbaccio, 1926).
Focillon, Henri. "Esthétique des visionnaires," Journal de psychologie (1926).
1925 Fegdal, Charles. Ateliers d’Artistes (Paris: Stock, 1925).
Sarfatti, Margherita. Segni colori e luci (Bologna: N. Zanichelli, 1925).
1923 Colasanti, Arduino. La Galleria Nazionale di Arte Moderna in Roma
(Milan: Bestetti & Tumminelli, 1923).
1922 Fles, Etha. Medardo Rosso. Der Mensch und der Künstler
(Freiburg: Walter Heinrich, 1922).
1919 Aurel, Camille. Rodin devant la femme. Fragments inédites de Rodin.
Sa technique par lui-même (Paris: Maison du Livre, 1919).
1912 Bénédite, Léonce. Catalogue sommaire des peintures et sculptures de l'école
contemporaine exposées dans les galeries du Musée national du Luxembourg
(Paris: G. Braun, 1912).
1911 Rodin, Auguste. L’Art. Entretiens réunis par Paul Gsell (Paris: B. Grasset, 1911).
1909 Piérard, Louis. Un sculpteur impressioniste: Medardo Rosso (Paris: Société Nouvelle, 1909).
Soffici, Ardengo. Il caso Medardo Rosso: preceduto da l'impressionismo e la pittura italiana
(Florence: B. Seeber, 1909).
1902 Claris, Edmond. De l’Impressionnisme en Sculpture. Auguste Rodin et Medardo Rosso
(Paris: Éditions de La Nouvelle Revue, 1902).
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