VILLA AT 90

His Life, Work, and Influence

First edition: 226 pages, numerous colour photographs throughout, black cloth, overall a very good copy in the dust jacket.

When he died at the stately age of 95 in 2011, the Sunday Times hailed Edoardo Villa as South Africa’s “most prolific and famous sculptor”. It was no empty plaudit. Villa, who was born in 1915 on the outskirts of the northern Italian town of Bergamo, produced one of the major bodies of sculpture in twentieth-century South Africa. Numbering over 1000 works, Villa’s muscular sculptures, which ranged from solid volumes in bronze to curved surfaces and elongated cylinders in steel, played a decisive role in modernising the language of South African sculpture.

For further biographical details see: https://edoardovilla.co.za/artist/edoardo-villa