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A Family Affair

Massimo Navoni

AUCTIONS

Massimo Navoni

A male figure reaching out towards an imaginary pergola where a dormouse is preparing to hibernate: this is how the teenage Gian Lorenzo Bernini and his father, Pietro, imagined Autumn, the season of grape harvest and ripe fruit. This marble sculpture from the collection of Hester Diamond went up for auction earlier this year.