Carmelo Cappello (1912-1996), ''I Figli del Mare'' (The Children of the Sea), bronze, brown patina, 1955, signed, strongly abstracted group of figures representative of his oeuvre of the 1950s. Cappello, one of the most important Italian modernist sculptors, studied in Milan from 1930 and with Marino Marini in Monza. He exhibited for the first time in 1937, followed by numerous further participations in exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale. H. 23 cm