American artist Lorenzo Ghiglieri was awarded an art scholarship at age 17, but he had to cut his education short when he was called into the military during the Korean War. The first commissioned Lorenzo Ghiglieri painting was a seascape for the U.S. Government to give to United Kingdom's Queen Elizabeth II on her coronation. He eventually moved to Alaska, at which point Lorenzo Ghiglieri's paintings focused on the indigenous peoples and harsh wilderness.
Lorenzo Ghiglieri's artwork is not limited to oil paintings; he is also a celebrated master sculptor. In 1994, Lorenzo Ghiglieri's sculpture Official American Bald Eagle, created from bronze, silver, and gold, was made a permanent piece in the White House art collection. Find spectacular bronze sculptures for sale online to enhance your growing collection.
LORENZO GHIGLIERI AND LARAN GHIGLIERI PENCIL SKETCHES The Lorenzo sketch featuring two bald eagles fighting over a fish, signed, inscribed "fountain for office." The Laran sketch featuring a stagecoach on the run, signed. Frames measure 27.25" x 24.5" and 16.25" x 28.5".
GHIGLIERI, Lorenzo E., (American, 1931-2020): "Prancing Horse", 32" in height, 34" in height overall with wooden base, incised signature, dated 1997, numbered 42/100.
Title is Panorama. 38 1/2" by 39" by 26". 9 of 250. Provenance: Estate of John J. LoMonaco. Lorenzo E. Ghiglieri (1931 - 2020) was active/lived in Oregon, California. Lorenzo Ghiglieri is known for Realist style horse, frontier figure and wild animal sculpture. Contemporary Oregon painter and sculptor Lorenzo Ghiglieri was born in Los Angeles, California, on November 25, 1931. Ghiglieri's paintings are typically in oil, often of heroic size, perhaps in proportion to his own six-foot five height, and his precise sculptures in bronze, again of large stature, are sometimes over 30 feet tall. Influenced by his Italian sculptor father, Angelo, and his French pianist and vocalist mother, Frieda, Lorenzoi Ghiglieri grew up in a world of ethnic blends that was to enrich his art. Both of his grandfathers were artists, one a sculptor and the other a musician-conductor. He began his life living on the fringe of a ghetto, an urban melting pot, and to this he attributes his interest in connecting with other people and their ways of life, including Eskimos and Indians of the Northwest. As a child, he carved in soap, modeled clay, and often watched his father make the stone chips fly. That he would become an artist seemed fated, and Ghiglieri responded to the artistic family environment in which he grew up. At age seventeen, he won an award from the Los Angeles Art Directors Club providing a scholarship to the Los Angeles Trade Tech Junior College. With the training he received there, he solidified his move into the visual arts. The Korean War and naval service interrupted his art education, but, after serving a year on a destroyer, he was assigned to the Headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet, in Norfolk, Virginia, where he served as staff illustrator and naval painter. During this tour came a commission for a marine painting of the cruiser, U.S.S. Baltimore, which was officially presented by the United States to Great Britain on the occasion of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Ghiglieri was just twenty-two years of age at the time he completed the piece. Following his discharge from the Navy, Lorenzo joined the staff of Stephen Biondi Studios. From the beginning of his professional career, Ghiglieri has made little distinction between commercial and fine art. To his way of thinking, what he was producing was art. If it was to be used for some other purpose, such as selling a product, then it could be called commercial art. Should it be displayed for the enjoyment of its qualities as art, then properly it could be called fine art. Lorenzo has won numerous national awards in design and illustration, including an invitation to paint scenes for an international biblical epic, "Earth, Theater of the Universe". This painting consists of a 100-foot rendition of the earth's history according to biblical tradition, It incorporates close to 400 figures, most of which were posed and painted from life, and the result has been shown in gallery and screen presentations. In 1992, Lorenzo sculpted the American Bald Eagle in bronze, silver and gold, and the piece is part of the permanent collection at the White House. More recently, he created a 33-foot tall bronze eagle, Skookum Hyak (Power Surge), that dominates the entrance to a resort in Oregon. Louisiana Pacific, a large lumber producing company in Oregon, is an admirer of their state's sculptor. In their offices in Portland, there are over a half dozen of his bronze works, two of which are of eagles. At the City Hall of Kansas City there is a statue of Abraham Lincoln and his son, Tad, sculpted by Ghiglieri, a work donated to the city in 1986 by Orville W. Anderson. A well traveled man, Ghiglieri has experienced many environments, including lonely life as a frontiersman. He has explored deserts and mountains, hunted in the Yukon, lived among Eskimo Natives, and fished many western rivers. He has a deep interest in the preservation of wildlife, and the protection of America's vanishing western heritage, as is evident in his bronze works that often depict eagles, mountain sheep, dolphin, and bear. Since 1956, Ghiglieri has lived in the vicinity of Portland, Oregon, drawn there by the city's beautiful setting and its proximity to large amounts of wilderness where he was able to realize a long-held dream of raising horses. He has hunted, photographed and sketched the animals in their native habitats. He has often ridden his horse through land that once belonged to the Nez Pierce Indians, and has become very aware of the historical import of the land of the Indians and its people, and has created a series of six bronzes that celebrate them. The first four are Leader of Leaders, White Bird's Coup, First Arrow of Looking Glass and Chief Joseph. Ghiglieri's works on his sculptures and paintings in one of his two studios in the Portland area. It was not until 1974 that Ghiglieri turned to bronze sculpture. After years of working in paint, he decided to employ a medium that involved the third dimension and began applying clay or wax to an armature (a supporting wire or tubular framework). Lorenzo sees himself as a storyteller, and works in a style he relates to baroque realism. His is not a static naturalism, but a robust organization of nature observed along lines of action and counteraction. "When I was young," Lorenzo says, "I labored over small details. As one matures, that is no longer needed." The centuries old 'lost wax' method is used to produce Lorenzo's precise, life-like sculptures in bronze, silver and gold. The process takes nine steps beginning with his conceptual sketch before the original sculpture is done in either clay or wax. The remaining steps: making the mold, creating the wax shell, dipping in the slurry silicone mixture, burning the wax out, pouring the bronze, finishing and tooling the sculpture and the final patina finish usually takes approximately eight weeks from beginning to end. In the case of larger heroic size monuments it can take a year or longer to produce the finished product. Pieces by Ghiglieri have often been auctioned for charity causes, including the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, AIDS, children with cancer and the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts. Ghiglieri's work is held in numerous prominent collections, including the permanent White House Collection, the Vatican, Kremlin, and the Smithsonian Museum. Many world leaders possess his sculptures, among them Pope John Paul II, King Juan Carlos of Spain, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Queen Elizabeth.
Lorenzo Ghiglieri Strongest Bond IV Bronze Statue.Ê Dimensions are 10" x 9" x 19".Ê This is a large heavy bronze statue with amazing detail.Ê Only 50 of these statues were made.Ê This is a highly collectible, limited-edition original bronze sculpture.Ê One of these sold in the recent past for $4,847.ÊÊ
LORENZO GHIGLIERI BRONZE SCULPTURE, "THE NEW POWERFUL EXCHANGE," WITH COA (Oregon, born 1931) Bear and bull facing off. Signed, dated 2000, edition REV 24/1792. The bronze measures 13" x 33" x 9"; mounted to wood plinth, 15" high overall. Lot includes booklet and certificate of authenticity.
Lorenzo E. Ghiglieri (American, 1931-2020), Bald Eagle on Top of the World, monumental bronze sculpture depicting an American bald eagle with wings fully spread, dramatically perched atop a globe-form base. The composition features finely detailed featherwork and a powerful stance with outstretched talons, conveying motion and strength. The globe is rendered in deep blue tones with raised gilt landmasses, creating a striking contrast against the darker patinated eagle. Signed to the base Lorenzo Ghiglieri, dated 1999, and numbered 68/125 to the side of the bronze pedestal. The work is mounted on a square granite stone base. Dimensions: 46 X 20 X 19 in. Condition: Good overall condition with typical surface wear and patina. Note: This condition statement is provided as a courtesy and reflects an opinion, not a statement of fact. Bidders are encouraged to inspect items in person or through an agent to assess condition. Estate fresh to the market. Shipping Information: Hill Auction Gallery does not offer in-house packing or shipping services. As a courtesy, we are pleased to refer trusted third-party shipping providers for buyer convenience. Buyers are encouraged to contact shippers directly to obtain packing quotes, shipping rates, insurance options, and estimated transit times. Additional local, domestic, and international shipper referrals may be available upon request. Parcel Shipping Providers: First Class Shipping Center, 11700 NW 41st Street, Coral Springs, FL. Phone (754) 800-7674. Email 1shippingcenter@gmail.com. Mr. Ship Pro, 7838 NW 44th St, Sunrise, FL 33351. Phone (305) 783-9504. Email roberto@mrshippro.com. The UPS Store #2881, 11110 W. Oakland Park Blvd., Sunrise, FL 33351. Phone (954) 572-4004. Email store2881@theupsstore.com. Freight & Large Item Shipping / Local Florida Delivery: Available through independent providers. Please contact info@hillauctiongallery.com for referrals based on item size, location, and delivery requirements.
Lorenzo E. Ghiglieri (American, 1931 - 2020) Bronze Bull & Bear Sculpture - The New Powerful Exchange. Dated 2006 and signed on front, and numbered. 15"h x 33 1/2"w x 9 1/2"d
Title is Need For Buffalo. 43 1/2" by 21 1/2" by 17". 12/38. 123 pounds. Lorenzo E. Ghiglieri (1931 - 2020) was active/lived in Oregon, California. Lorenzo Ghiglieri is known for Realist style horse, frontier figure and wild animal sculpture. Contemporary Oregon painter and sculptor Lorenzo Ghiglieri was born in Los Angeles, California, on November 25, 1931. Ghiglieri's paintings are typically in oil, often of heroic size, perhaps in proportion to his own six-foot five height, and his precise sculptures in bronze, again of large stature, are sometimes over 30 feet tall. Influenced by his Italian sculptor father, Angelo, and his French pianist and vocalist mother, Frieda, Lorenzoi Ghiglieri grew up in a world of ethnic blends that was to enrich his art. Both of his grandfathers were artists, one a sculptor and the other a musician-conductor. He began his life living on the fringe of a ghetto, an urban melting pot, and to this he attributes his interest in connecting with other people and their ways of life, including Eskimos and Indians of the Northwest. As a child, he carved in soap, modeled clay, and often watched his father make the stone chips fly. That he would become an artist seemed fated, and Ghiglieri responded to the artistic family environment in which he grew up. At age seventeen, he won an award from the Los Angeles Art Directors Club providing a scholarship to the Los Angeles Trade Tech Junior College. With the training he received there, he solidified his move into the visual arts. The Korean War and naval service interrupted his art education, but, after serving a year on a destroyer, he was assigned to the Headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet, in Norfolk, Virginia, where he served as staff illustrator and naval painter. During this tour came a commission for a marine painting of the cruiser, U.S.S. Baltimore, which was officially presented by the United States to Great Britain on the occasion of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Ghiglieri was just twenty-two years of age at the time he completed the piece. Following his discharge from the Navy, Lorenzo joined the staff of Stephen Biondi Studios. From the beginning of his professional career, Ghiglieri has made little distinction between commercial and fine art. To his way of thinking, what he was producing was art. If it was to be used for some other purpose, such as selling a product, then it could be called commercial art. Should it be displayed for the enjoyment of its qualities as art, then properly it could be called fine art. Lorenzo has won numerous national awards in design and illustration, including an invitation to paint scenes for an international biblical epic, "Earth, Theater of the Universe". This painting consists of a 100-foot rendition of the earth's history according to biblical tradition, It incorporates close to 400 figures, most of which were posed and painted from life, and the result has been shown in gallery and screen presentations. In 1992, Lorenzo sculpted the American Bald Eagle in bronze, silver and gold, and the piece is part of the permanent collection at the White House. More recently, he created a 33-foot tall bronze eagle, Skookum Hyak (Power Surge), that dominates the entrance to a resort in Oregon. Louisiana Pacific, a large lumber producing company in Oregon, is an admirer of their state's sculptor. In their offices in Portland, there are over a half dozen of his bronze works, two of which are of eagles. At the City Hall of Kansas City there is a statue of Abraham Lincoln and his son, Tad, sculpted by Ghiglieri, a work donated to the city in 1986 by Orville W. Anderson. A well traveled man, Ghiglieri has experienced many environments, including lonely life as a frontiersman. He has explored deserts and mountains, hunted in the Yukon, lived among Eskimo Natives, and fished many western rivers. He has a deep interest in the preservation of wildlife, and the protection of America's vanishing western heritage, as is evident in his bronze works that often depict eagles, mountain sheep, dolphin, and bear. Since 1956, Ghiglieri has lived in the vicinity of Portland, Oregon, drawn there by the city's beautiful setting and its proximity to large amounts of wilderness where he was able to realize a long-held dream of raising horses. He has hunted, photographed and sketched the animals in their native habitats. He has often ridden his horse through land that once belonged to the Nez Pierce Indians, and has become very aware of the historical import of the land of the Indians and its people, and has created a series of six bronzes that celebrate them. The first four are Leader of Leaders, White Bird's Coup, First Arrow of Looking Glass and Chief Joseph. Ghiglieri's works on his sculptures and paintings in one of his two studios in the Portland area. It was not until 1974 that Ghiglieri turned to bronze sculpture. After years of working in paint, he decided to employ a medium that involved the third dimension and began applying clay or wax to an armature (a supporting wire or tubular framework). Lorenzo sees himself as a storyteller, and works in a style he relates to baroque realism. His is not a static naturalism, but a robust organization of nature observed along lines of action and counteraction. "When I was young," Lorenzo says, "I labored over small details. As one matures, that is no longer needed." The centuries old 'lost wax' method is used to produce Lorenzo's precise, life-like sculptures in bronze, silver and gold. The process takes nine steps beginning with his conceptual sketch before the original sculpture is done in either clay or wax. The remaining steps: making the mold, creating the wax shell, dipping in the slurry silicone mixture, burning the wax out, pouring the bronze, finishing and tooling the sculpture and the final patina finish usually takes approximately eight weeks from beginning to end. In the case of larger heroic size monuments it can take a year or longer to produce the finished product. Pieces by Ghiglieri have often been auctioned for charity causes, including the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, AIDS, children with cancer and the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts. Ghiglieri's work is held in numerous prominent collections, including the permanent White House Collection, the Vatican, Kremlin, and the Smithsonian Museum. Many world leaders possess his sculptures, among them Pope John Paul II, King Juan Carlos of Spain, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Queen Elizabeth.
Title is Need For Buffalo. 43 1/2" by 21 1/2" by 17". 12/38. 123 pounds. Lorenzo E. Ghiglieri (1931 - 2020) was active/lived in Oregon, California. Lorenzo Ghiglieri is known for Realist style horse, frontier figure and wild animal sculpture. Contemporary Oregon painter and sculptor Lorenzo Ghiglieri was born in Los Angeles, California, on November 25, 1931. Ghiglieri's paintings are typically in oil, often of heroic size, perhaps in proportion to his own six-foot five height, and his precise sculptures in bronze, again of large stature, are sometimes over 30 feet tall. Influenced by his Italian sculptor father, Angelo, and his French pianist and vocalist mother, Frieda, Lorenzoi Ghiglieri grew up in a world of ethnic blends that was to enrich his art. Both of his grandfathers were artists, one a sculptor and the other a musician-conductor. He began his life living on the fringe of a ghetto, an urban melting pot, and to this he attributes his interest in connecting with other people and their ways of life, including Eskimos and Indians of the Northwest. As a child, he carved in soap, modeled clay, and often watched his father make the stone chips fly. That he would become an artist seemed fated, and Ghiglieri responded to the artistic family environment in which he grew up. At age seventeen, he won an award from the Los Angeles Art Directors Club providing a scholarship to the Los Angeles Trade Tech Junior College. With the training he received there, he solidified his move into the visual arts. The Korean War and naval service interrupted his art education, but, after serving a year on a destroyer, he was assigned to the Headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet, in Norfolk, Virginia, where he served as staff illustrator and naval painter. During this tour came a commission for a marine painting of the cruiser, U.S.S. Baltimore, which was officially presented by the United States to Great Britain on the occasion of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Ghiglieri was just twenty-two years of age at the time he completed the piece. Following his discharge from the Navy, Lorenzo joined the staff of Stephen Biondi Studios. From the beginning of his professional career, Ghiglieri has made little distinction between commercial and fine art. To his way of thinking, what he was producing was art. If it was to be used for some other purpose, such as selling a product, then it could be called commercial art. Should it be displayed for the enjoyment of its qualities as art, then properly it could be called fine art. Lorenzo has won numerous national awards in design and illustration, including an invitation to paint scenes for an international biblical epic, "Earth, Theater of the Universe". This painting consists of a 100-foot rendition of the earth's history according to biblical tradition, It incorporates close to 400 figures, most of which were posed and painted from life, and the result has been shown in gallery and screen presentations. In 1992, Lorenzo sculpted the American Bald Eagle in bronze, silver and gold, and the piece is part of the permanent collection at the White House. More recently, he created a 33-foot tall bronze eagle, Skookum Hyak (Power Surge), that dominates the entrance to a resort in Oregon. Louisiana Pacific, a large lumber producing company in Oregon, is an admirer of their state's sculptor. In their offices in Portland, there are over a half dozen of his bronze works, two of which are of eagles. At the City Hall of Kansas City there is a statue of Abraham Lincoln and his son, Tad, sculpted by Ghiglieri, a work donated to the city in 1986 by Orville W. Anderson. A well traveled man, Ghiglieri has experienced many environments, including lonely life as a frontiersman. He has explored deserts and mountains, hunted in the Yukon, lived among Eskimo Natives, and fished many western rivers. He has a deep interest in the preservation of wildlife, and the protection of America's vanishing western heritage, as is evident in his bronze works that often depict eagles, mountain sheep, dolphin, and bear. Since 1956, Ghiglieri has lived in the vicinity of Portland, Oregon, drawn there by the city's beautiful setting and its proximity to large amounts of wilderness where he was able to realize a long-held dream of raising horses. He has hunted, photographed and sketched the animals in their native habitats. He has often ridden his horse through land that once belonged to the Nez Pierce Indians, and has become very aware of the historical import of the land of the Indians and its people, and has created a series of six bronzes that celebrate them. The first four are Leader of Leaders, White Bird's Coup, First Arrow of Looking Glass and Chief Joseph. Ghiglieri's works on his sculptures and paintings in one of his two studios in the Portland area. It was not until 1974 that Ghiglieri turned to bronze sculpture. After years of working in paint, he decided to employ a medium that involved the third dimension and began applying clay or wax to an armature (a supporting wire or tubular framework). Lorenzo sees himself as a storyteller, and works in a style he relates to baroque realism. His is not a static naturalism, but a robust organization of nature observed along lines of action and counteraction. "When I was young," Lorenzo says, "I labored over small details. As one matures, that is no longer needed." The centuries old 'lost wax' method is used to produce Lorenzo's precise, life-like sculptures in bronze, silver and gold. The process takes nine steps beginning with his conceptual sketch before the original sculpture is done in either clay or wax. The remaining steps: making the mold, creating the wax shell, dipping in the slurry silicone mixture, burning the wax out, pouring the bronze, finishing and tooling the sculpture and the final patina finish usually takes approximately eight weeks from beginning to end. In the case of larger heroic size monuments it can take a year or longer to produce the finished product. Pieces by Ghiglieri have often been auctioned for charity causes, including the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, AIDS, children with cancer and the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts. Ghiglieri's work is held in numerous prominent collections, including the permanent White House Collection, the Vatican, Kremlin, and the Smithsonian Museum. Many world leaders possess his sculptures, among them Pope John Paul II, King Juan Carlos of Spain, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Queen Elizabeth.
Lorenzo Ghiglieri 'Bugle Call' Bronze Elk Sculpture 1988, USA Bronze sculpture by Lorenzo Ghiglieri (American, 1931-2020), depicting an elk atop a rocky outcrop with its head extended upware mid call. Mounted to a wood base. Signed, dated and editioned.
Lorenzo Ghiglieri 'Talons of Justice' Bronze Eagles Sculpture 21st Cent., USA Bronze sculpture by Lorenzo Ghiglieri (American, 1931-2020), depicting two eagles fighting over a fish mid flight. Mounted to a square wooden base. Signed and edition.
Lorenzo Ghiglieri 'Marauder' Bronze Eagle Sculpture 20th Cent., USA Bronze sculpture by Lorenzo Ghiglieri (American, 1931-2020), depicting an eagle in flight. Mounted to a square wooden base. Signed, dated and edition.
Lorenzo Ghiglieri 'Skookum Hyak' Bronze Eagle & Fish Sculpture 20th Cent., USA Bronze sculpture by Lorenzo Ghiglieri (American, 1931-2020), depicting an eagle with a rainbow trout in its talons, atop a rocky outcrop. Mounted to a wood base. Signed and edition.
Lorenzo Ghiglieri 'Heavy Duty' Bronze Rhino Sculpture 1989, USA Bronze sculpture by Lorenzo Ghiglieri (American, 1931-2020), depicting a rhino walking atop a rocky outcrop. Mounted to a circular wooden base. Signed and dated 1989.
Lorenzo Ghiglieri 'Dark Force' Bronze Buffalo Sculpture 20th Cent., USA Bronze sculpture by Lorenzo Ghiglieri (American, 1931-2020), depicting a bucking buffalo mounted to a wood base. Signed and Editioned.
Lorenzo Ghiglieri 'Born to Run' Bronze Horses Sculpture 1990s, USA Bronze sculpture by Lorenzo Ghiglieri (American, 1931-2020), depicting two horses, one mare and one foal, mid run. Mounted to wood base. Signed and Editioned.
Lorenzo Ghiglieri 'Outraged' Bronze Elephant Sculpture 1990s, USA Bronze sculpture by Lorenzo Ghiglieri (American, 1931-2020), depicting an elephant with its trunk pointed upward, standing on a rocky outcrop. Mounted to a circular wood base. Signed and editioned.
Lorenzo Ghiglieri 'Stars & Stripes' Bronze Eagle Sculpture 21st Cent. Bronze sculpture by Lorenzo Ghiglieri (American, 1931-2020), depicting a bald eagle with the American flag in its foot. Mounted to a wood base. Signed and editioned.
Title is Need For Buffalo. 43 1/2" by 21 1/2" by 17". 20/38. 123 pounds. Lorenzo E. Ghiglieri (1931 - 2020) was active/lived in Oregon, California. Lorenzo Ghiglieri is known for Realist style horse, frontier figure and wild animal sculpture. Contemporary Oregon painter and sculptor Lorenzo Ghiglieri was born in Los Angeles, California, on November 25, 1931. Ghiglieri s paintings are typically in oil, often of heroic size, perhaps in proportion to his own six-foot five height, and his precise sculptures in bronze, again of large stature, are sometimes over 30 feet tall. Influenced by his Italian sculptor father, Angelo, and his French pianist and vocalist mother, Frieda, Lorenzoi Ghiglieri grew up in a world of ethnic blends that was to enrich his art. Both of his grandfathers were artists, one a sculptor and the other a musician-conductor. He began his life living on the fringe of a ghetto, an urban melting pot, and to this he attributes his interest in connecting with other people and their ways of life, including Eskimos and Indians of the Northwest. As a child, he carved in soap, modeled clay, and often watched his father make the stone chips fly. That he would become an artist seemed fated, and Ghiglieri responded to the artistic family environment in which he grew up. At age seventeen, he won an award from the Los Angeles Art Directors Club providing a scholarship to the Los Angeles Trade Tech Junior College. With the training he received there, he solidified his move into the visual arts. The Korean War and naval service interrupted his art education, but, after serving a year on a destroyer, he was assigned to the Headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet, in Norfolk, Virginia, where he served as staff illustrator and naval painter. During this tour came a commission for a marine painting of the cruiser, U.S.S. Baltimore, which was officially presented by the United States to Great Britain on the occasion of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Ghiglieri was just twenty-two years of age at the time he completed the piece. Following his discharge from the Navy, Lorenzo joined the staff of Stephen Biondi Studios. From the beginning of his professional career, Ghiglieri has made little distinction between commercial and fine art. To his way of thinking, what he was producing was art. If it was to be used for some other purpose, such as selling a product, then it could be called commercial art. Should it be displayed for the enjoyment of its qualities as art, then properly it could be called fine art. Lorenzo has won numerous national awards in design and illustration, including an invitation to paint scenes for an international biblical epic, "Earth, Theater of the Universe". This painting consists of a 100-foot rendition of the earth s history according to biblical tradition, It incorporates close to 400 figures, most of which were posed and painted from life, and the result has been shown in gallery and screen presentations. In 1992, Lorenzo sculpted the American Bald Eagle in bronze, silver and gold, and the piece is part of the permanent collection at the White House. More recently, he created a 33-foot tall bronze eagle, Skookum Hyak (Power Surge), that dominates the entrance to a resort in Oregon. Louisiana Pacific, a large lumber producing company in Oregon, is an admirer of their state s sculptor. In their offices in Portland, there are over a half dozen of his bronze works, two of which are of eagles. At the City Hall of Kansas City there is a statue of Abraham Lincoln and his son, Tad, sculpted by Ghiglieri, a work donated to the city in 1986 by Orville W. Anderson. A well traveled man, Ghiglieri has experienced many environments, including lonely life as a frontiersman. He has explored deserts and mountains, hunted in the Yukon, lived among Eskimo Natives, and fished many western rivers. He has a deep interest in the preservation of wildlife, and the protection of America s vanishing western heritage, as is evident in his bronze works that often depict eagles, mountain sheep, dolphin, and bear. Since 1956, Ghiglieri has lived in the vicinity of Portland, Oregon, drawn there by the city s beautiful setting and its proximity to large amounts of wilderness where he was able to realize a long-held dream of raising horses. He has hunted, photographed and sketched the animals in their native habitats. He has often ridden his horse through land that once belonged to the Nez Pierce Indians, and has become very aware of the historical import of the land of the Indians and its people, and has created a series of six bronzes that celebrate them. The first four are Leader of Leaders, White Bird s Coup, First Arrow of Looking Glass and Chief Joseph. Ghiglieri s works on his sculptures and paintings in one of his two studios in the Portland area. It was not until 1974 that Ghiglieri turned to bronze sculpture. After years of working in paint, he decided to employ a medium that involved the third dimension and began applying clay or wax to an armature (a supporting wire or tubular framework). Lorenzo sees himself as a storyteller, and works in a style he relates to baroque realism. His is not a static naturalism, but a robust organization of nature observed along lines of action and counteraction. "When I was young," Lorenzo says, "I labored over small details. As one matures, that is no longer needed." The centuries old lost wax method is used to produce Lorenzo s precise, life-like sculptures in bronze, silver and gold. The process takes nine steps beginning with his conceptual sketch before the original sculpture is done in either clay or wax. The remaining steps: making the mold, creating the wax shell, dipping in the slurry silicone mixture, burning the wax out, pouring the bronze, finishing and tooling the sculpture and the final patina finish usually takes approximately eight weeks from beginning to end. In the case of larger heroic size monuments it can take a year or longer to produce the finished product. Pieces by Ghiglieri have often been auctioned for charity causes, including the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, AIDS, children with cancer and the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts. Ghiglieri s work is held in numerous prominent collections, including the permanent White House Collection, the Vatican, Kremlin, and the Smithsonian Museum. Many world leaders possess his sculptures, among them Pope John Paul II, King Juan Carlos of Spain, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Queen Elizabeth.
Title is Need For Buffalo. 42" by 17 1/2" by 20". Artist Proof 1/1. 123 pounds. Lorenzo E. Ghiglieri (1931 - 2020) was active/lived in Oregon, California. Lorenzo Ghiglieri is known for Realist style horse, frontier figure and wild animal sculpture. Contemporary Oregon painter and sculptor Lorenzo Ghiglieri was born in Los Angeles, California, on November 25, 1931. Ghiglieri's paintings are typically in oil, often of heroic size, perhaps in proportion to his own six-foot five height, and his precise sculptures in bronze, again of large stature, are sometimes over 30 feet tall. Influenced by his Italian sculptor father, Angelo, and his French pianist and vocalist mother, Frieda, Lorenzoi Ghiglieri grew up in a world of ethnic blends that was to enrich his art. Both of his grandfathers were artists, one a sculptor and the other a musician-conductor. He began his life living on the fringe of a ghetto, an urban melting pot, and to this he attributes his interest in connecting with other people and their ways of life, including Eskimos and Indians of the Northwest. As a child, he carved in soap, modeled clay, and often watched his father make the stone chips fly. That he would become an artist seemed fated, and Ghiglieri responded to the artistic family environment in which he grew up. At age seventeen, he won an award from the Los Angeles Art Directors Club providing a scholarship to the Los Angeles Trade Tech Junior College. With the training he received there, he solidified his move into the visual arts. The Korean War and naval service interrupted his art education, but, after serving a year on a destroyer, he was assigned to the Headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet, in Norfolk, Virginia, where he served as staff illustrator and naval painter. During this tour came a commission for a marine painting of the cruiser, U.S.S. Baltimore, which was officially presented by the United States to Great Britain on the occasion of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Ghiglieri was just twenty-two years of age at the time he completed the piece. Following his discharge from the Navy, Lorenzo joined the staff of Stephen Biondi Studios. From the beginning of his professional career, Ghiglieri has made little distinction between commercial and fine art. To his way of thinking, what he was producing was art. If it was to be used for some other purpose, such as selling a product, then it could be called commercial art. Should it be displayed for the enjoyment of its qualities as art, then properly it could be called fine art. Lorenzo has won numerous national awards in design and illustration, including an invitation to paint scenes for an international biblical epic, "Earth, Theater of the Universe". This painting consists of a 100-foot rendition of the earth's history according to biblical tradition, It incorporates close to 400 figures, most of which were posed and painted from life, and the result has been shown in gallery and screen presentations. In 1992, Lorenzo sculpted the American Bald Eagle in bronze, silver and gold, and the piece is part of the permanent collection at the White House. More recently, he created a 33-foot tall bronze eagle, Skookum Hyak (Power Surge), that dominates the entrance to a resort in Oregon. Louisiana Pacific, a large lumber producing company in Oregon, is an admirer of their state's sculptor. In their offices in Portland, there are over a half dozen of his bronze works, two of which are of eagles. At the City Hall of Kansas City there is a statue of Abraham Lincoln and his son, Tad, sculpted by Ghiglieri, a work donated to the city in 1986 by Orville W. Anderson. A well traveled man, Ghiglieri has experienced many environments, including lonely life as a frontiersman. He has explored deserts and mountains, hunted in the Yukon, lived among Eskimo Natives, and fished many western rivers. He has a deep interest in the preservation of wildlife, and the protection of America's vanishing western heritage, as is evident in his bronze works that often depict eagles, mountain sheep, dolphin, and bear. Since 1956, Ghiglieri has lived in the vicinity of Portland, Oregon, drawn there by the city's beautiful setting and its proximity to large amounts of wilderness where he was able to realize a long-held dream of raising horses. He has hunted, photographed and sketched the animals in their native habitats. He has often ridden his horse through land that once belonged to the Nez Pierce Indians, and has become very aware of the historical import of the land of the Indians and its people, and has created a series of six bronzes that celebrate them. The first four are Leader of Leaders, White Bird's Coup, First Arrow of Looking Glass and Chief Joseph. Ghiglieri's works on his sculptures and paintings in one of his two studios in the Portland area. It was not until 1974 that Ghiglieri turned to bronze sculpture. After years of working in paint, he decided to employ a medium that involved the third dimension and began applying clay or wax to an armature (a supporting wire or tubular framework). Lorenzo sees himself as a storyteller, and works in a style he relates to baroque realism. His is not a static naturalism, but a robust organization of nature observed along lines of action and counteraction. "When I was young," Lorenzo says, "I labored over small details. As one matures, that is no longer needed." The centuries old 'lost wax' method is used to produce Lorenzo's precise, life-like sculptures in bronze, silver and gold. The process takes nine steps beginning with his conceptual sketch before the original sculpture is done in either clay or wax. The remaining steps: making the mold, creating the wax shell, dipping in the slurry silicone mixture, burning the wax out, pouring the bronze, finishing and tooling the sculpture and the final patina finish usually takes approximately eight weeks from beginning to end. In the case of larger heroic size monuments it can take a year or longer to produce the finished product. Pieces by Ghiglieri have often been auctioned for charity causes, including the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, AIDS, children with cancer and the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts. Ghiglieri's work is held in numerous prominent collections, including the permanent White House Collection, the Vatican, Kremlin, and the Smithsonian Museum. Many world leaders possess his sculptures, among them Pope John Paul II, King Juan Carlos of Spain, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Queen Elizabeth.
Title is Warning Arrow to the West, Black Hawk. 22" by 11" by 9". Arrow extension where it rests in hand is detached and repaired. Number 12/25. Lorenzo E. Ghiglieri (1931 - 2020) was active/lived in Oregon, California. Lorenzo Ghiglieri is known for Realist style horse, frontier figure and wild animal sculpture. Contemporary Oregon painter and sculptor Lorenzo Ghiglieri was born in Los Angeles, California, on November 25, 1931. Ghiglieri's paintings are typically in oil, often of heroic size, perhaps in proportion to his own six-foot five height, and his precise sculptures in bronze, again of large stature, are sometimes over 30 feet tall. Influenced by his Italian sculptor father, Angelo, and his French pianist and vocalist mother, Frieda, Lorenzoi Ghiglieri grew up in a world of ethnic blends that was to enrich his art. Both of his grandfathers were artists, one a sculptor and the other a musician-conductor. He began his life living on the fringe of a ghetto, an urban melting pot, and to this he attributes his interest in connecting with other people and their ways of life, including Eskimos and Indians of the Northwest. As a child, he carved in soap, modeled clay, and often watched his father make the stone chips fly. That he would become an artist seemed fated, and Ghiglieri responded to the artistic family environment in which he grew up. At age seventeen, he won an award from the Los Angeles Art Directors Club providing a scholarship to the Los Angeles Trade Tech Junior College. With the training he received there, he solidified his move into the visual arts. The Korean War and naval service interrupted his art education, but, after serving a year on a destroyer, he was assigned to the Headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet, in Norfolk, Virginia, where he served as staff illustrator and naval painter. During this tour came a commission for a marine painting of the cruiser, U.S.S. Baltimore, which was officially presented by the United States to Great Britain on the occasion of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Ghiglieri was just twenty-two years of age at the time he completed the piece. Following his discharge from the Navy, Lorenzo joined the staff of Stephen Biondi Studios. From the beginning of his professional career, Ghiglieri has made little distinction between commercial and fine art. To his way of thinking, what he was producing was art. If it was to be used for some other purpose, such as selling a product, then it could be called commercial art. Should it be displayed for the enjoyment of its qualities as art, then properly it could be called fine art. Lorenzo has won numerous national awards in design and illustration, including an invitation to paint scenes for an international biblical epic, "Earth, Theater of the Universe". This painting consists of a 100-foot rendition of the earth's history according to biblical tradition, It incorporates close to 400 figures, most of which were posed and painted from life, and the result has been shown in gallery and screen presentations. In 1992, Lorenzo sculpted the American Bald Eagle in bronze, silver and gold, and the piece is part of the permanent collection at the White House. More recently, he created a 33-foot tall bronze eagle, Skookum Hyak (Power Surge), that dominates the entrance to a resort in Oregon. Louisiana Pacific, a large lumber producing company in Oregon, is an admirer of their state's sculptor. In their offices in Portland, there are over a half dozen of his bronze works, two of which are of eagles. At the City Hall of Kansas City there is a statue of Abraham Lincoln and his son, Tad, sculpted by Ghiglieri, a work donated to the city in 1986 by Orville W. Anderson. A well traveled man, Ghiglieri has experienced many environments, including lonely life as a frontiersman. He has explored deserts and mountains, hunted in the Yukon, lived among Eskimo Natives, and fished many western rivers. He has a deep interest in the preservation of wildlife, and the protection of America's vanishing western heritage, as is evident in his bronze works that often depict eagles, mountain sheep, dolphin, and bear. Since 1956, Ghiglieri has lived in the vicinity of Portland, Oregon, drawn there by the city's beautiful setting and its proximity to large amounts of wilderness where he was able to realize a long-held dream of raising horses. He has hunted, photographed and sketched the animals in their native habitats. He has often ridden his horse through land that once belonged to the Nez Pierce Indians, and has become very aware of the historical import of the land of the Indians and its people, and has created a series of six bronzes that celebrate them. The first four are Leader of Leaders, White Bird's Coup, First Arrow of Looking Glass and Chief Joseph. Ghiglieri's works on his sculptures and paintings in one of his two studios in the Portland area. It was not until 1974 that Ghiglieri turned to bronze sculpture. After years of working in paint, he decided to employ a medium that involved the third dimension and began applying clay or wax to an armature (a supporting wire or tubular framework). Lorenzo sees himself as a storyteller, and works in a style he relates to baroque realism. His is not a static naturalism, but a robust organization of nature observed along lines of action and counteraction. "When I was young," Lorenzo says, "I labored over small details. As one matures, that is no longer needed." The centuries old 'lost wax' method is used to produce Lorenzo's precise, life-like sculptures in bronze, silver and gold. The process takes nine steps beginning with his conceptual sketch before the original sculpture is done in either clay or wax. The remaining steps: making the mold, creating the wax shell, dipping in the slurry silicone mixture, burning the wax out, pouring the bronze, finishing and tooling the sculpture and the final patina finish usually takes approximately eight weeks from beginning to end. In the case of larger heroic size monuments it can take a year or longer to produce the finished product. Pieces by Ghiglieri have often been auctioned for charity causes, including the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, AIDS, children with cancer and the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts. Ghiglieri's work is held in numerous prominent collections, including the permanent White House Collection, the Vatican, Kremlin, and the Smithsonian Museum. Many world leaders possess his sculptures, among them Pope John Paul II, King Juan Carlos of Spain, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Queen Elizabeth.
Cold-painted bronze sculpture, "Silent Skill," signed in cast Lorenzo G. (Lorenzo E. Ghiglieri, California/ Oregon, 1931-2020), numbered 24/ 250, dated 2004, inscribed "the 'puma' mountain lion, silent and steady, the lion pursues its prey" beside signature, on integral wood base, accompanied by certificate of authenticity issued by Rinascere Studios, certificated dated August 9th, 2005, bronze: approx 12.5"h, 21"w, 8"d, overall on base: approx 14"h, 21"w, 9.5"d, 38lbs
Large patinated bronze equestrian sculpture, "Photo Finish," signed in cast Lorenzo Ghiglieri (American, 1931-2020), dated 2004, numbered 33/ 200, accompanied by certificate of authenticity issued by The Registry, on platform wood base, bronze: approx 14.75"h, 38"w, 14"d, overall: approx 17"h, 38"w, 14"d, 76lbs
Title is Need For Buffalo. 42" by 17 1/2" by 20". 18/36. 123 pounds. Lorenzo E. Ghiglieri (1931 - 2020) was active/lived in Oregon, California. Lorenzo Ghiglieri is known for Realist style horse, frontier figure and wild animal sculpture. Contemporary Oregon painter and sculptor Lorenzo Ghiglieri was born in Los Angeles, California, on November 25, 1931. Ghiglieri's paintings are typically in oil, often of heroic size, perhaps in proportion to his own six-foot five height, and his precise sculptures in bronze, again of large stature, are sometimes over 30 feet tall. Influenced by his Italian sculptor father, Angelo, and his French pianist and vocalist mother, Frieda, Lorenzoi Ghiglieri grew up in a world of ethnic blends that was to enrich his art. Both of his grandfathers were artists, one a sculptor and the other a musician-conductor. He began his life living on the fringe of a ghetto, an urban melting pot, and to this he attributes his interest in connecting with other people and their ways of life, including Eskimos and Indians of the Northwest. As a child, he carved in soap, modeled clay, and often watched his father make the stone chips fly. That he would become an artist seemed fated, and Ghiglieri responded to the artistic family environment in which he grew up. At age seventeen, he won an award from the Los Angeles Art Directors Club providing a scholarship to the Los Angeles Trade Tech Junior College. With the training he received there, he solidified his move into the visual arts. The Korean War and naval service interrupted his art education, but, after serving a year on a destroyer, he was assigned to the Headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet, in Norfolk, Virginia, where he served as staff illustrator and naval painter. During this tour came a commission for a marine painting of the cruiser, U.S.S. Baltimore, which was officially presented by the United States to Great Britain on the occasion of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Ghiglieri was just twenty-two years of age at the time he completed the piece. Following his discharge from the Navy, Lorenzo joined the staff of Stephen Biondi Studios. From the beginning of his professional career, Ghiglieri has made little distinction between commercial and fine art. To his way of thinking, what he was producing was art. If it was to be used for some other purpose, such as selling a product, then it could be called commercial art. Should it be displayed for the enjoyment of its qualities as art, then properly it could be called fine art. Lorenzo has won numerous national awards in design and illustration, including an invitation to paint scenes for an international biblical epic, "Earth, Theater of the Universe". This painting consists of a 100-foot rendition of the earth's history according to biblical tradition, It incorporates close to 400 figures, most of which were posed and painted from life, and the result has been shown in gallery and screen presentations. In 1992, Lorenzo sculpted the American Bald Eagle in bronze, silver and gold, and the piece is part of the permanent collection at the White House. More recently, he created a 33-foot tall bronze eagle, Skookum Hyak (Power Surge), that dominates the entrance to a resort in Oregon. Louisiana Pacific, a large lumber producing company in Oregon, is an admirer of their state's sculptor. In their offices in Portland, there are over a half dozen of his bronze works, two of which are of eagles. At the City Hall of Kansas City there is a statue of Abraham Lincoln and his son, Tad, sculpted by Ghiglieri, a work donated to the city in 1986 by Orville W. Anderson. A well traveled man, Ghiglieri has experienced many environments, including lonely life as a frontiersman. He has explored deserts and mountains, hunted in the Yukon, lived among Eskimo Natives, and fished many western rivers. He has a deep interest in the preservation of wildlife, and the protection of America's vanishing western heritage, as is evident in his bronze works that often depict eagles, mountain sheep, dolphin, and bear. Since 1956, Ghiglieri has lived in the vicinity of Portland, Oregon, drawn there by the city's beautiful setting and its proximity to large amounts of wilderness where he was able to realize a long-held dream of raising horses. He has hunted, photographed and sketched the animals in their native habitats. He has often ridden his horse through land that once belonged to the Nez Pierce Indians, and has become very aware of the historical import of the land of the Indians and its people, and has created a series of six bronzes that celebrate them. The first four are Leader of Leaders, White Bird's Coup, First Arrow of Looking Glass and Chief Joseph. Ghiglieri's works on his sculptures and paintings in one of his two studios in the Portland area. It was not until 1974 that Ghiglieri turned to bronze sculpture. After years of working in paint, he decided to employ a medium that involved the third dimension and began applying clay or wax to an armature (a supporting wire or tubular framework). Lorenzo sees himself as a storyteller, and works in a style he relates to baroque realism. His is not a static naturalism, but a robust organization of nature observed along lines of action and counteraction. "When I was young," Lorenzo says, "I labored over small details. As one matures, that is no longer needed." The centuries old 'lost wax' method is used to produce Lorenzo's precise, life-like sculptures in bronze, silver and gold. The process takes nine steps beginning with his conceptual sketch before the original sculpture is done in either clay or wax. The remaining steps: making the mold, creating the wax shell, dipping in the slurry silicone mixture, burning the wax out, pouring the bronze, finishing and tooling the sculpture and the final patina finish usually takes approximately eight weeks from beginning to end. In the case of larger heroic size monuments it can take a year or longer to produce the finished product. Pieces by Ghiglieri have often been auctioned for charity causes, including the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, AIDS, children with cancer and the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts. Ghiglieri's work is held in numerous prominent collections, including the permanent White House Collection, the Vatican, Kremlin, and the Smithsonian Museum. Many world leaders possess his sculptures, among them Pope John Paul II, King Juan Carlos of Spain, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Queen Elizabeth.
LORENZO GHIGLIERI BRONZE SCULPTURE, "PRECISION" (Oregon, 1931-2020) bald eagle catching a fish, mounted to a wood plinth. Signed, dated 1989, edition 17/50, 35"H x 20.5"W x 20"D overall.
A remarkably dynamic bronze sculpture capturing a bull and a bear moments before coming to blows by renowned American sculptor Lorenzo Ghiglieri (1931-2020), with works featured from The White House to The Vatican. Titled 'Relentless', numbered #25 from 475 castings along with signature and date of 2000. Mounted on wood base, measures 27" x 9" x 18 1/2"
This commanding bronze sculpture of an eagle in flight while it carries the American Flag is titled 'Flying Colors' by Lorenzo Ghiglieri (1931 - 2020), who's works are in the permanent collections of the White House and the Vatican. Piece is signed at the base and dated 2003, limited edition #112/475. Mounted on wood base, measures 17" x 29" x 13 3/4"
Shown here is a bronze sculpture of an eagle striking into the water for a fish titled 'Prize Catch' by famed American artist Lorenzo Ghiglieri (1931-2020), whose works are in the permanent collections of the White House and the Vatican. Signed and numbered #112/200 at the base, measures 10 1/2" x 11 1/2" x 23"
LORENZO GHIGLIERI BRONZE SCULPTURE Lorenzo Ghiglieri (Oregon, b.1931) bronze, "A King's Prize," a lion standing over his slain zebra. Inscribed by the artist and numbered 7/150. The bronze measures 17" x 35" x 23" and is mounted to a wood plinth; 19" high overall.
Title is Need For Buffalo. 42 1/2" by 17 1/2" by 20". 18/36. Lorenzo E. Ghiglieri (1931 - 2020) was active/lived in Oregon, California. Lorenzo Ghiglieri is known for Realist style horse, frontier figure and wild animal sculpture. Contemporary Oregon painter and sculptor Lorenzo Ghiglieri was born in Los Angeles, California, on November 25, 1931. Ghiglieri's paintings are typically in oil, often of heroic size, perhaps in proportion to his own six-foot five height, and his precise sculptures in bronze, again of large stature, are sometimes over 30 feet tall. Influenced by his Italian sculptor father, Angelo, and his French pianist and vocalist mother, Frieda, Lorenzoi Ghiglieri grew up in a world of ethnic blends that was to enrich his art. Both of his grandfathers were artists, one a sculptor and the other a musician-conductor. He began his life living on the fringe of a ghetto, an urban melting pot, and to this he attributes his interest in connecting with other people and their ways of life, including Eskimos and Indians of the Northwest. As a child, he carved in soap, modeled clay, and often watched his father make the stone chips fly. That he would become an artist seemed fated, and Ghiglieri responded to the artistic family environment in which he grew up. At age seventeen, he won an award from the Los Angeles Art Directors Club providing a scholarship to the Los Angeles Trade Tech Junior College. With the training he received there, he solidified his move into the visual arts. The Korean War and naval service interrupted his art education, but, after serving a year on a destroyer, he was assigned to the Headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet, in Norfolk, Virginia, where he served as staff illustrator and naval painter. During this tour came a commission for a marine painting of the cruiser, U.S.S. Baltimore, which was officially presented by the United States to Great Britain on the occasion of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Ghiglieri was just twenty-two years of age at the time he completed the piece. Following his discharge from the Navy, Lorenzo joined the staff of Stephen Biondi Studios. From the beginning of his professional career, Ghiglieri has made little distinction between commercial and fine art. To his way of thinking, what he was producing was art. If it was to be used for some other purpose, such as selling a product, then it could be called commercial art. Should it be displayed for the enjoyment of its qualities as art, then properly it could be called fine art. Lorenzo has won numerous national awards in design and illustration, including an invitation to paint scenes for an international biblical epic, "Earth, Theater of the Universe". This painting consists of a 100-foot rendition of the earth's history according to biblical tradition, It incorporates close to 400 figures, most of which were posed and painted from life, and the result has been shown in gallery and screen presentations. In 1992, Lorenzo sculpted the American Bald Eagle in bronze, silver and gold, and the piece is part of the permanent collection at the White House. More recently, he created a 33-foot tall bronze eagle, Skookum Hyak (Power Surge), that dominates the entrance to a resort in Oregon. Louisiana Pacific, a large lumber producing company in Oregon, is an admirer of their state's sculptor. In their offices in Portland, there are over a half dozen of his bronze works, two of which are of eagles. At the City Hall of Kansas City there is a statue of Abraham Lincoln and his son, Tad, sculpted by Ghiglieri, a work donated to the city in 1986 by Orville W. Anderson. A well traveled man, Ghiglieri has experienced many environments, including lonely life as a frontiersman. He has explored deserts and mountains, hunted in the Yukon, lived among Eskimo Natives, and fished many western rivers. He has a deep interest in the preservation of wildlife, and the protection of America's vanishing western heritage, as is evident in his bronze works that often depict eagles, mountain sheep, dolphin, and bear. Since 1956, Ghiglieri has lived in the vicinity of Portland, Oregon, drawn there by the city's beautiful setting and its proximity to large amounts of wilderness where he was able to realize a long-held dream of raising horses. He has hunted, photographed and sketched the animals in their native habitats. He has often ridden his horse through land that once belonged to the Nez Pierce Indians, and has become very aware of the historical import of the land of the Indians and its people, and has created a series of six bronzes that celebrate them. The first four are Leader of Leaders, White Bird's Coup, First Arrow of Looking Glass and Chief Joseph. Ghiglieri's works on his sculptures and paintings in one of his two studios in the Portland area. It was not until 1974 that Ghiglieri turned to bronze sculpture. After years of working in paint, he decided to employ a medium that involved the third dimension and began applying clay or wax to an armature (a supporting wire or tubular framework). Lorenzo sees himself as a storyteller, and works in a style he relates to baroque realism. His is not a static naturalism, but a robust organization of nature observed along lines of action and counteraction. "When I was young," Lorenzo says, "I labored over small details. As one matures, that is no longer needed." The centuries old 'lost wax' method is used to produce Lorenzo's precise, life-like sculptures in bronze, silver and gold. The process takes nine steps beginning with his conceptual sketch before the original sculpture is done in either clay or wax. The remaining steps: making the mold, creating the wax shell, dipping in the slurry silicone mixture, burning the wax out, pouring the bronze, finishing and tooling the sculpture and the final patina finish usually takes approximately eight weeks from beginning to end. In the case of larger heroic size monuments it can take a year or longer to produce the finished product. Pieces by Ghiglieri have often been auctioned for charity causes, including the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, AIDS, children with cancer and the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts. Ghiglieri's work is held in numerous prominent collections, including the permanent White House Collection, the Vatican, Kremlin, and the Smithsonian Museum. Many world leaders possess his sculptures, among them Pope John Paul II, King Juan Carlos of Spain, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Queen Elizabeth.
LARGE!! Lorenzo E. Ghiglieri (Born 1931) "Flying Colors" Bronze Sculpture. Contemporary Oregon painter and sculptor Lorenzo Ghiglieri was born in Los Angeles, California, on November 25, 1931. His precise sculptures in bronze, again of large stature, are sometimes over 30 feet tall. Lorenzo was a Korean War Naval Veteran. He was assigned to the Headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet, in Norfolk, Virginia, where he served as staff illustrator and naval painter. During this tour came a commission for a marine painting of the cruiser, U.S.S. Baltimore, which was officially presented by the United States to Great Britain on the occasion of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Influenced by his Italian sculptor father, Angelo, and his French pianist and vocalist mother, Frieda, Lorenzo Ghiglieri grew up in a world of ethnic blends that was to enrich his art. Both of his grandfathers were artists, one a sculptor and the other a musician-conductor. Lorenzo sees himself as a storyteller, and works in a style he relates to baroque realism. His is not a static naturalism, but a robust organization of nature observed along lines of action and counteraction. Ghiglieri's work is held in numerous prominent collections, including the permanent White House Collection, the Vatican, Kremlin, and the Smithsonian Museum. Many world leaders possess his sculptures, among them Pope John Paul II, King Juan Carlos of Spain, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Queen Elizabeth. Artist: Lorenzo Ghiglieri Title: "Flying Colors" Medium: Bronze Sculpture Circa/Year: 1995 Signature Type: Signed Edition: 15/100 Approx. Net Weight: 125 lbs. Keywords: Southwestern, Western Artwork, Art; Ref: BD1819
Lorenzo Ghiglieri (1931-2020 Oregon) African Elephant with Warthog Bronze Sculpture, 2003. Edition 15/250. Signed, editioned, and dated behind rear feet of elephant. Large tabletop-sized sculpture with overall measurements of 18x22x13". Wood base. A few small scuffs to wood base, overall excellent condition.
Featured in this lot is large bronze sculpture titled, "Spooked" and dated 2008 by American artist Lorenzo E. Ghiglieri (1931-2020), this is a unique one of a kind Artist Proof example. The sculpture features a wonderfully and professionally crafted bronze construction that shows a tall Grizzly bear standing on its hind feet gripping a broken tree by the trunk. The bronze shows wonderful attention to detail with life like features. The base is marked as follows: Lorenzo Ghiglieri - AP - 2/850 - 2008 - Spooked. The condition of this large bear bronze is good with no obvous signs of damage and shows good overall condition. The measurements of this Lorenzo Ghiglieri (November 25, 1931 January 25, 2020) was an American painter and sculptor. The Portland, Oregon, newspaper Willamette Week referred to Ghiglieri as "one of the Northwest's best-recognized and most prolific bronze sculptors." Ghiglieri's sculptures are displayed in a wide variety of locations around the world. His 27-foot (8.2 m)-high sculpture of an eagle is located at the entrance of the Seven Feathers Casino near Canyonville, Oregon. Ghiglieri also has works on permanent display at the White House, the Vatican, and Middlebury College. The condition of this Bronze sculpture is good with no obvious signs of damage and shows a good overall condition. The measurements of this bronze sculpture is 27 1/2" x 13" x 23" and it weighs 81 pounds. Provenance: From a prominent ex-Bozeman private collection who purchased the majority of his collection from Cowan's, Skinner, Bonhams, Morphy's, Sotheby's, March in Montana, North American Auction and other well revered auction houses.
Lorenzo Ghiglieri (American, 1931-2020) "Brave Glory" Eagle Bronze Sculpture - C. 2010. A gilt and patinated bronze American Eagle sculpture at flight with the American flag in its talons. Signed "Lorenzo Ghiglieri c. 2010 80 / MPI 475". On a wooden base. 27 1/4" h x 19" w x 15" d.
Lorenzo Ghiglieri (American, 1931-2020) "The American Patriot" Eagle Bronze Sculpture - C. 2006. A gilt and patinated bronze sculpture depicting an American Bald Eagle coming to rest on the U.S. Constitution with olive branch and 13 arrows (for the original 13 colonies). Signed "Lorenzo Ghiglieri c. 2006 REV 151 / 777". Mounted on a round stone base. 39" h x 34" w x 20" d.
Presented on an attached wood base, measuring H 36" x W 8" x D 18" overall. Signed with title. American sculptor well known for his dynamic wildlife figures. Provenance: From a Detroiter's condo at The Rushmore, 80 Riverside Blvd. New York City Dimensions: 1 PC x H 18" W 8" Depth 36"
Large patinated bronze wildlife sculpture, "Unconquered" (grizzly bear on rocky outcrop), signed Lorenzo Ghiglieri (Lorenzo E. Ghiglieri, American, 1931-2020), dated 1985, numbered 7/ 28, foundry mark for Maiden Bronze Foundry, Walla Walla, Washington, approx 29.25"h, 19.25"w, 24.25"d, 116lbs **Provenance: The carefully curated western art collection of the Benton Family, Texas**
DESCRIPTION: Bronze sculpture entitled "Powerful Exchange" by Lorenzo E. Ghiglieri depicting a brawl between a bull and a bear, an economic allegory for the stock market. Titled and numbered 120 of 500 on verso. Mounted on a wood base. CIRCA: 20th Century ORIGIN: American DIMENSIONS: H: 14.5" W: 13" L: 31" CONDITION: Minor wear and tarnishing consistent with age and use Unless otherwise stated, all information provided is the opinion of our specialists. Should you have any specific questions regarding the condition of this lot, please use the ask question button or send us an email.
LORENZO GHIGLIERI (Oregon, 1931-2020) bronze sculpture, large elephant at a run, mounted to wood plinth. Signed, edition 22/100, 18.5"H x 24.5"L x 12"W.
Lorenzo Ghiglieri American, b. 1931 First Jump, circa 1999 Bronze Signed Lorenzo Ghiglieri dated and numbered (base) Overall height 23 x width 29 x depth 11 inches
Lorenzo E. Ghiglieri (1931 - 2020) Large Bronze Artist Proof #1 "Powerful Exchange": Ghiglieri was active/lived in Oregon, California. Stunning bronze "Powerful Exchange", signed and rare Artist Proof 1. Measuring 13.25" tall, 23" wide, 9" deep. Ghiglieri also has works on permanent display at the White House, the Vatican, and Middlebury College. In excellent condition and extremely rare piece. Lovely bronze with great patina, large wooden base and extremely heavy. This item requires third party shipping.
