# Medardo Rosso - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T01:10:32.928Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 48
- Lots with prices: 25
- First auction date: 2001-05-08
- Latest auction date: 2024-10-29
- Median realised price: $11,700
- Price range: $20 to $341,000

## Market Takeaway
Medardo Rosso has 48 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $11,700. Category concentration is still broad. Recent 12-month volume is still light. These metrics reflect recorded public auction results and may not include private transactions or every premium outlier sale.

## How To Read This Data
- Use median \($11,700\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($2,200 to $67,250\) as the middle 50% of recorded sales.
- Auction prices can include buyer premiums or fees depending on house reporting, so compare on a like\-for\-like basis.
- Condition, provenance, size, and attribution confidence can move final value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 12% (3 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 32% (8 sales)
- $10,000\+: 56% (14 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 3
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $20
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2024-10-29
- Days since latest sale: 547
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Sotheby's: 12 lots
- Christie's: 5 lots
- Il Ponte Auction House: 2 lots
- Kunsthaus Lempertz KG: 2 lots
- Leclere \- Maison de ventes: 2 lots
- Mediartrade Casa d'aste: 2 lots
- Wright: 2 lots
- Accademia Fine Art: 1 lots
- Aguttes: 1 lots
- Art International Auction House: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2018-09-12 | MEDARDO ROSSO \(ITALIAN, 1858\-1928\): ‘BAMBINA RIDENTE’ \(BAMBINA CHE RIDE\) A wax over plaster head of a laughing girl Subject conceived in 1890, probably cast by the sculptor’s son, Francesco Rosso, from the original plaster model  the head 26.5cm high excluding base, the base 33.5cm x 27cm x 5cm PROVENANCE: Clotilde Longoni Rosso, Milan \(the artist's daughter\-in\-law\) Louis Pollock, owner of the Peridot Gallery, New York. Acquired directly from Clotilde Longoni Rosso in 1959. The original invoice is included in the sale. Thence by descent to the present owner. EXHIBITED New York, Peridot Gallery, The First Exhibition in America of Sculpture by Medardo Rosso, 1959\-60, no. 6, illustrated in the catalogue \(a copy is included in the sale\). LITERATURE Margaret Scolari Barr, ‘Medardo Rosso’, New York, 1963, illustrates this cast on page 33. Paola Mola & Fabio Vittucci, ‘Medardo Rosso Catalogo ragionato della scultura’, Museo Medardo Rosso, Skira, 2009. Dr Sharon Hecker, ‘A Moment’s Monument, Medardo Rosso and the International Origins of Modern Sculpture’, University of California Press, 2017, p.131 illustrates a photograph by Medardo Rosso of this model of a cast of the same subject.  OTHER KNOWN CASTS OF ‘BAMBINA RIDENTE’ The following known examples cast in wax are listed in the Catalogue Raisonnée by P. Mola & F. Vittucci: Lifetime casts: 1. Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna Rome, inv. 2026. 2. Centro de arte Reina Sofia, Madrid. Casts without documented lifetime provenance and those cast legally from the original plaster model by Francesco Rosso: 1. Museo Medardo Rosso, Barzio. 2. Pinacoteca Nazionale di Brera, Milan. 3. Civica Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Milan, inv. 7356, gifted by Francesco Rosso in 1953. 4. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, inv. NM SK 2122 \(1972\). We are grateful to Dr Sharon Hecker and the Museo Medardo Rosso for assistance with researching and cataloguing this work. This important sculpture belongs to the above rariefied group of casts that are in major museums throughout Europe. It was sold by Medardo’s Rosso’s daughter\-in\-law Clotilde Longoni Rosso in 1959 to the American art dealer Louis Pollock, owner of the Peridot Gallery, New York. At the same time she also sold two other Medardo Rosso works which are on the same invoice, ‘L'Eta d'oro’ \(Golden Age\) and ‘Bookmaker’ which also both appeared in the Peridot Gallery exhibition. ‘L’Eta d’oro’ was subsequently sold at Sotheby’s London, on 9th February 2005 as lot 439 for £254,400. Interestingly it was mounted on an almost identical plinth to the present head, on what looks to be the same wood, with rounded corners and a recessed border about 1cm from the outer edge. The other work on the original invoice is ‘Bookmaker’, which the Museum of Modern Art in New York purchased direct from the Peridot Gallery. \(Inv. No. 673.1959\). They currently describe the provenance as follows:  1894 \- 1928, Medardo Rosso.  ? \- 1959, Clothilde Longoni Rosso, Milan \(the artist's daughter\-in\-law\), probably inherited from the artist or the artist's son Francesco Rosso. October 1959, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, purchased through the Peridot Gallery, New York. The three works featured in The First Exhibition in America of Sculpture by Medardo Rosso at the Peridot Gallery and are all in the exhibition catalogue, a copy is included in the sale along with the original invoice and a letter from Clotilde Longoni Rosso authenticating the work. The present wax head is illustrated in Margaret Scolari Barr’s seminal work ‘Medardo Rosso’, \(Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1963\) page 33, and a photograph of the ‘Bookmaker’ featured on the front cover. Barr describes the head thus:  “Certainly the ‘Little Girl Laughing’ is a work that “everyone can understand”. The way versions are so shiny they suggest a child’s face well scrubbed. The principle of the single point of view, so obvious in the Rouart, is abandoned. The head stands free and can be seen | Chiswick Auctions | £180,000
2. 2009-11-26 | MEDARDO ROSSO | Sotheby's | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-medardo-rosso-251-c-5c56978d08
3. 2009-10-16 | MEDARDO ROSSO | Sotheby's | £67,250 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-medardo-rosso-7-c-2bd40687c3
4. 2024-10-29 | Medardo Rosso, Ritratto di Henri Rouart | Mediartrade Casa d'aste | N/A
5. 2024-10-29 | Medardo Rosso, Bambino ebreo | Mediartrade Casa d'aste | N/A
6. 2024-07-17 | MEDARDO ROSSO, MEDARDO ROSSO | Art\-Rite | €20
7. 2024-03-08 | MEDARDO ROSSO \(Torino 1858 \- Milano 1928\), da. "Il birichino \(Gavroche\)". Scultura in bronzo. Cm 35x23x21. Opera firmata M. Rosso. | Art International Auction House | N/A
8. 2023-12-05 | Medardo Rosso \(1858\-1928\) Tre figure su una strada matita su carta 21.2 x 1 | Christie's | €11,340
9. 2023-06-21 | Medardo Rosso ... | Il Ponte Auction House | N/A
10. 2023-06-21 | Medardo Rosso ... | Il Ponte Auction House | €2,000
11. 2022-09-20 | Medardo Rosso \(Torino 1858 \- Milano 1928\) copia da | Lucas Aste | N/A
12. 2022-05-05 | PLASTER SCULPTURE 20TH CENTURY | Casa d'Aste Babuino | €2,200
13. 2022-04-14 | MEDARDO ROSSO \(1858 \- 1928\) \- LA RUFFIANA \(SECONDA VERSIONE\), 1883 | Pananti Casa D'Aste SRL | €75,000
14. 2021-11-25 | Innamorati sotto il lampione MEDARDO ROSSO | International Art Sale Italy | €100,000
15. 2021-07-06 | Medardo Rosso \(Torino 1858\-Milano 1928\) \- Il Birichino | Finarte | €2,200
16. 2021-04-03 | MEDARDO ROSSO \(1858 \- 1928\) sculptuur in was : "Jo… | DVC | €1,000
17. 2020-04-03 | Medardo Rosso, 1858 – 1928 | Hampel Fine Art Auctions | €2,800
18. 2019-05-29 | MEDARDO ROSSO \- Lovers under the streetlight | Bertolami Fine Art s.r.l. | €1,800
19. 2019-05-27 | Medardo Rosso \(Torino 1858\-Milano 1928\) \- "Ruffiana" | Finarte Roma | €25,000
20. 2019-01-24 | Medardo Rosso \(1858 \- 1928\) Bronze. | Weiss Auctions | N/A
21. 2018-05-31 | Bambino malato | Bonino | N/A
22. 2017-05-30 | Il birichino. | Capitolium Art | N/A
23. 2016-12-10 | MEDARDO ROSSO \(D'APRES\) \(1858\-1928\) BAMBINO MALATO | Cornette de Saint\-Cyr | N/A
24. 2016-05-19 | MEDARDO ROSSO \(1858\-1928\) | Leclere \- Maison de ventes | N/A

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