Antoniucci Volti : Buste de femme nue, c. 1980 (Pen and black ink)

By VOLTI Antoniucci (1915-1989)

Antoniucci Volti (1915–1989)
Buste de femme nue (Female Nude, Bust), c. 1980
Pen and black ink
Signed lower right: “Volti”

Dimensions:
Sheet 29.7 × 21 cm (11 ⅝ × 8 ¼ in.) — Image: nearly the full sheet

Condition: good condition, unframed

Provenance: Livre d’Or de Yves Guérin, compiled 1963–1992 (single-owner provenance). The second of two Volti sheets in the album (see no. 25). Volti grew up in Villefranche-sur-Mer and is buried there, where the Fondation-Musée Volti is established — placing him in the collector’s Riviera milieu.

Description: A female nude seen to the waist, the body drawn in a spare, flowing contour line and the face worked in dense cross-hatching that throws one side into shadow — the sensual economy of line characteristic of Volti’s daily studies from the model. Antoniucci Volti was a French sculptor, draughtsman and lithographer of Italian origin, in the lineage of Aristide Maillol, who devoted his career to the female nude; Second Grand Prix de Rome (1936), he is held in the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris and the Musée Volti at Villefranche-sur-Mer. Signed by hand.

Price : 500,00 € ( 569.00 USD )