Dying Cleopatra immortalised in marble
The Premier Auction at Brunk (23% buyer’s premium) in Asheville, North Carolina included this 3ft 10in (1.17m) carrara marble Cleopatra morente by the Italian sculptor Pio Fedi (1816-92).
The artist’s best-known work is the Rape of Polyxena, 1866, in the Loggia dei Lanzi, Piazza della …