Tozzi, Piero |
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Dealer/Gallery Artist |
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dates
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1882-1974 |
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city
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New York City |
| state | NY | | other cities | Naples, Italy; Florence, Italy; |
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historical notes
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Piero Vito Tozzi (sometimes referred to as Captain Pietro Tozzi) was an antiquarian, artist, restorer, professor and art dealer who had galleries in New York and Florence.
Tozzi specialized in Italian decorative arts, sculpture and paintings.
Tozzi’s collection included, among other items, a bronze antique after the Hercules Slaying Lichas from the 19th/20th century, Fra Filippo Lippi’s The Annunciation, Luca Signorelli’s The Marriage of the Virgin, Giovanni Francesco Susini’s The Young Saint John the Baptist, and Alberto Passini’s Market Scene in Constantinople.
Tozzi sold work to individual collectors, galleries and institutions including, among others, the Schaeffer Galleries, Samuel Kress, the Art Institute of Chicago, Cincinnati Art Museum, Walters Art Museum and the Metropolitan Art Museum.
Tozzi married Emma Bardini (1883-1962) the daughter of Florentine art dealer Stefano Bardini (1836–1922) in 1923. Then in 1928 he married Maria A. Cantasano.
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decades
of activity | 1920-1930
1930-1940
1940-1950
1950-1960
1960-1970
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Archives/Repository |
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Please see individual record for location |
Piero Tozzi Archives |
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Harvard Art Museum Archives
32 Quincy Street |
Papers of John Coolidge and Agnes Mongan, 1909-2006 |
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The Getty Research Institute
Research Libraries, Archives and Special Collections |
Duveen Brothers Records, 1876-1981, bulk 1909-1964 |
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Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200 |
Jacques Seligmann & Co. records, 1904-1978 (bulk 1913-1974) |
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The Getty Research Institute
Research Libraries, Archives and Special Collections |
Elisabeth Jastrow papers, 1870-1971 (bulk 1916-1965). |
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Pierpont Morgan Library Archives
225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street |
Correspondence, 1923 Apr. 21, 26. |
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Pierpont Morgan Library Archives
225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street |
Correspondence, 1923 May 10, 11. |
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Biblioteca Berenson, Villa I Tatti
The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies |
Bernard and Mary Berenson Papers, 1880-2002 (bulk 1880-1959) |
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