Art Deco Bronze - Languid Nude Woman - Ugo Cipriani

Bronze with nuanced patina. Languid nude woman. Signed Cipriani for Ugo Cipriani, annotated "Bronze on the rear terrace, Art Deco period, 1930". Height: Width: Ugo CIPRIANI 1887 / 1960. Ugo Cipriani, born in Florence, Italy on August 13, 1887, and died in Paris on June 18, 1960, was an Italian sculptor. Son of the sculptor Adolfo Cipriani and Emilia Pancani, Ugo Cipriani was the fifth of nine children. He lived in the Oltrarno district, in Borgo San Frediano. After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, Ugo Cipriani worked with marble, terracotta, bronze, and alabaster in the spirit of the Art Deco movement of the 1920s. One of his best-known works, a bronze monument (1919) to the Italian nationalist and irredentist Guglielmo Oberdan, stands in the piazza of the same name in Florence. In 1935, Ugo Cipriani emigrated to France to escape Mussolini's fascist regime. He lived in Paris as a political refugee and continued to create there until his death in 1960. A very prolific sculptor in France, some clues revealed by his daughter Lydia and son Gabriel suggest that he used pseudonyms such as Menneville and Uriano.