Tomasso & Willoughby Gerrish ~ Emily Young: Carving in Time - Catalog - Page 76
ABOUT TOMASSO
Tomasso was founded in Leeds, Yorkshire, in 1993, by brothers Dino and Raffaello
Tomasso. Today, they head the gallery alongside the next generation of the Tomasso
family. They specialise in European Sculpture, Master Paintings and Ancient Art, and are
recognised internationally for their particular expertise in European Renaissance bronzes.
Dino and Raffaello have promoted and supported, through loans and exhibitions, major
international institutions and significant sales have been made to some of the world’s
most prestigious museums, including the Bode Museum, Berlin; The Liechtenstein
Collection, and the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, New York; the Yale Center for British Art and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Their first London gallery opened in 2010. Today, they operate from Bardon Hall in
Leeds and from Marquis House, on London’s Jermyn Street, located at the heart of St
James’s, for centuries the home of some of the world’s leading art galleries. In 2014,
Emanuela Tarizzo (Courtauld Institute of Art BA 2009, MA 2010) joined the team and is
now Gallery Director in London.
In over 25 years, Dino and Raffaello have made major rediscoveries in the fields of European Sculpture, Master Paintings, and Ancient Greek and Roman Sculpture, collected in
Tomasso Brothers’ anniversary publication XXV.
Dino and Raffaello continuously support British and international museums and cultural
institutions through sponsorship and the loans of artworks, such as for the seminal Hans
von Aachen: Court Artist in Europe exhibition at Prague Castle in 2010. In 2012, they
contributed to the realisation of the landmark exhibition Bronze at the Royal Academy
of Arts in London. More recently, they sponsored the exhibitions Blood and Tears: Albrecht Bouts and the Image of the Passion at the Suermondt-Ludwig Museum in Aachen,
Lost Treasures of Strawberry Hill at the Strawberry Hill House Trust in London, SOLD!
The Great British Antiques Story at the Bowes Museum in County Durham, and Bertoldo
at the Frick Collection in New York.
The gallery has been part of work placement schemes for Art History undergraduates at
the University of Leeds and the University of Leicester, where Dino and Raffaello have
also made donations towards a History of Art Scholarship.
They are regular exhibitors at TEFAF Maastricht, and periodically hold exhibitions in
their London gallery and in New York City.
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