Alceo Dossena [SEP] place of death
York Metropolitan Museum of Art, unfortunately, turned out to be a failure. The Italian government auctioned 39 Dossena works in 1933 for $9000 when a forgery of his sold at a peak price of $150,000.
Alceo Dossena died a poor man in Rome in 1937.
Collections.
Two of Dossena's sculptures are on permanent display in the Frick Fine Arts Building at the University of Pittsburgh. They were intended to appear as if they had been mounted on a Renaissance church, carved by Simone Martini. The
chapter on Alceo Dossena.
- W. Lusetti, "Alceo Dossena scultore", Roma, 1955
- Marco Horak, "A Piacenza bassorilievo del grande Alceo Dossena, uno dei più enigmatici e controversy protagonist del mondo dell'arte", in "Strenna Piacentina 2013", Piacenza, 2013.
- G. Cellini, "Alceo Dossena" in "Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani", Roma, 1992, vol. 41.
- Terry Deary, "Terry Deary's Terribly True Crime Stories", 1994.
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