Bruno Lucchesi

Bruno Lucchesi understood that making a human being from clay is an act bordering on trespass. The sculptor presses a thumb where an eye will open, draws a mouth from wet earth and decides how much sorrow a shoulder can carry. Limbs emerge, collapse and are summoned again. Material gathers beneath the fingernails; anatomy becomes instinct. Nothing about the process is distant or entirely civilized. Rather, it is tactile, guttural and perilously close to creation itself.

Lucchesi's Work Lives on in Major Museums, Public and Private Collections Worldwide

NEW YORK, NY — The art world mourns the passing of Italian-American sculptor Bruno Lucchesi, who died in New York at the age of 99, just weeks before his 100th birthday.

For more than seven decades, Lucchesi created figurative sculptures in bronze, terracotta, and marble inspired by everyday life. His work explored themes of family, compassion, spirituality and the human experience.

Bruno Lucchesi's Bas Relief sculpture “Subway #1” is featured in the current exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York, "New York at Its Core."

Cavalier Galleries is proud to announce that this May the Portrait Society of America will present the Gold Medal to Bruno Lucchesi for his commitment in portraying the figure in his art.