Anthony Gabriel Gennarelli Art for Sale and Sold Prices

b. 1915 - d. 2001

Known for: Abstract and realist marble sculpture, portrait busts

One could say artist Anthony Gennarelli took the idea of role modeling to the extreme. Having idolized the marble sculpture of Michaelangelo and DaVinci, not only did he decide to take up the same medium as his predecessors, but to carve with the same tools they had employed.

Using only a chisel and hammer, Gennarelli sculpted as few present-day artists do, eschewing modern-day machinery to craft an eclectic oeuvre dreamed of neither by Renaissance sculptors nor the ancients.

Gennarelli's death in 2001 at the age of 86 left his family with a legacy of paintings and sculpture