Leone Lodi Artwork valuations, appraisals and auction estimates

Leone Lodi (1900-1974) was the son of a marble craftsman: at just 14 years old he moved to Milan where he began working as a stonemason and decorator. He attended evening courses at the Brera Academy and those at the Sforzesco Castle Higher School of Applied Arts and spent a period of apprenticeship as a rough-hewn craftsman at Adolfo Wildt's atelier. Read the full biography

Leone Lodi (1900-1974) was the son of a marble craftsman: at just 14 years old he moved to Milan where he began working as a stonemason and decorator. He attended evening courses at the Brera Academy and those at the Sforzesco Castle Higher School of Applied Arts and spent a period of apprenticeship as a rough-hewn craftsman at Adolfo Wildt's atelier. In the 1920s Lodi progressively approached Novecento, first participating in the Sarfatti Prize with the Figura Muliebre plaster, subsequently exhibiting at the group's Second Exhibition, set up in 1929 at the Palazzo della Permanente. Thanks to his monumental style, a peculiar characteristic of the figurative languages ​​developed in the 1930s, Lodi collaborated with some of the most important architects of the time, such as Pica, Piacentini, Mezzanotte and Ponti: he thus became one of the protagonists of the great monumental construction sites opened in Milan which involved collaboration between sculptors, architects and decorators, according to the then desired idea of ​​fusion between all the plastic arts. The assignment at Palazzo Mezzanotte, the collaboration with Sironi for the V Triennial Exhibition of Decorative Arts in Milan in 1933 and the nomination as a member of the Annual Artistic Commission of the Permanente in 1939 demonstrate the prestige achieved by Lodi in the Milanese artistic panorama before the Second World War world championship, which caused his definitive return to Soresina due to the destruction of his home and studio during the bombings of the city.