Ink and pastel on paper
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Rider
Purchased 1950
adults
animals: mammals
figure
horse
people
riding
society
transport: land
paper unique ink pastel
Rider
support: 454 × 340 mm
Purchased 1950
<strong>Marino Marini</strong> 1901-1980
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<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/marini-rider-n05970" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05970</span></a> <strong>Horseman</strong> 1948
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Inscribed 'MM' and 'MARINO | 1948' b.l.<br/>
Pastel and ink on paper, 17 7/8 x 13 3/8 (45.5 x 34)<br/>
Purchased from the Galleria del Milione, Milan (Cleve Fund) 1950<br/>
<em>Lit:</em> Patrick Waldberg, G. di San Lazzaro and Herbert Read, <em>Marino Marini</em> (Paris 1970), painting No.47, p.397, repr. p.399
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A study for a <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/sculpture" title="Glossary definition for 'Sculpture'"><span>sculpture</span></a> of 1949 (No.250 in the G. di San Lazzaro oeuvre catalogue), which is sometimes known as 'The Angel of the City'. It is very similar to the Tate's sculpture [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="/art/artworks/N06009" onclick="popTateObjects(event, -1, 'N06009');" title="View details of this artwork"><span>N06009</span></a>] except that the arms are outspread.
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<strong>Published in:</strong><br/>
Ronald Alley, <em>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</em>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, p.488, reproduced p.488


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adults animals: mammals figure horse people riding society transport: land