Lying Woman - Antoniucci VOLTI (1915-1989)

Original terracotta sculpture France circa 1950 height 10.5 cm length 18 cm Biography : Antoniucci Volti, pseudonym of Antoniucci Voltigero (1915-1989) was a French sculptor and draftsman of Italian origin. His figurative sculpture was in line with Aristide Maillol. All his work glorified the woman and her body: "What enchants me in a woman's body, are the rhythms and the volumes". In 1928, Volti was admitted to the School of Decorative Arts in Nice. After obtaining a gold medal at the Marseille fair with two polychrome bas-reliefs, he enrolled in 1932 at the National School of Fine Arts in Paris in [...]