INSCRIPTIONS: Signed on the back: ‘MINGUZZI’. PROVENANCE: Milan and Venice, the artist's personal collection; Venice, the artist's heirs and descendants. EXHIBITIONS: Milan, Galleria della Spiga, 1946, rep. p. 79; Geneva, Musée de l'Athénée, 1949 (with the title Ragazzo con le braccia incrociate); Bassano del Grappa, Palazzo Sturm, 1964; Milan, Castello Sforzesco, 1992, ill. p. 19; Bologna, Complesso Monumentale Universitario di San Giovanni in Monte, 1998, ill. p. 16; Vicenza, Basilica Palladiana, 1999; Origgio (VA), Villa Borletti, 2024 (without catalogue). LITERATURE: Minguzzi : sculture, catalogue raisonné edited by the Fondazione Museo Luciano Minguzzi, critical text by C. Pirovano, Milan 2002, n. 9, p. 39, rep. col. (with preceding bibliography).