Antonio Frilli

Antonio Frilli (born 1860 and died 1902)[citation needed] was a Florentine sculptor who specialized in marble and alabaster statues for public and private customers.

In 1883, Frilli established his first and exclusive Atelier in via dei Fossi, Florence, where he worked with a few assistants on medium-size refined painted alabasters and big white Carrara marble statues for private villas and monumental cemeteries.

In 1904, two years after Frilli's death, his son Umberto took part in the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri, where one of his father's works – a sculpture on a "Woman on a Hammock" in white Carrara marble – won the Grand Prize and 6 gold medals.

[4] More recently, Frilli's 1892 sculpture "Sweet Dreams",[5] which features a life-sized reclining nude in a hammock and which was exhibited at Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco in 1915, was sold at a Los Angeles auction house.

[6] A 2013 novel by Gary Rinehart, Nude Sleeping in a Hammock, is a fictionalized account of the statue's owners since 1892 and how the sculpture affected their fortunes.