Antoniucci VOLTI
French 1915 - 1989
Born in the Côte d'Azur area, Antoniucci Volti turned to be an artist acclaiming the body beauty of women in Mediterranean, especially in sculpture. He won a gold medal for two polychrome bas-reliefs in the art fair in Marseille at the age of seventeen only; then he entered the studio of Jean Boucher at the École Supérieur des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1936, he won the second place of Rome Prize."Harmonie", a work commissioned by Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris and Centre Pompidou, located in Place Theodol-Herzl, near by the Marais district in Paris. In 1967, Volti was appointed as vice president of the Société du Salon d'Automne in Paris; in 1981, the Volti Museum was established by the French government in south of France. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Sino-French diplomatic relations in 2014, the solo touring exhibition of Volti started its exhibition tour to the five cities in China, including Beijing, Tianjin, Chengdu, Wuhan and Shanghai. This exhibition toured back to the Volti Museum in 2015 and also in Château de Maintenon in 2016 for respectively congraduated the centenary of his birth.
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Deux nues debout
1986
Ink on paper
34 x 26.5 cm
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Estimate
60,000 - 90,000 15,000 - 23,000 2,000 - 3,000 14,000 - 20,000
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Sold Price
84,000 21,320 2,725 18,919
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Nikaia (Nu allongé)
1964
Bronze, edition no. 2/6
Sculpture: 121(L) x 35(W) x 55(H) cm
Pedestal: 125(L) x 40(W) x 39(H) cm |
Estimate
4,600,000 - 6,500,000 1,192,000 - 1,684,000 152,800 - 215,900
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Eva
Bronze, patina bronze, edition no. 6/8
10(L) x 7(W) x 28.8(H) cm
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Estimate
440,000 - 650,000 113,000 - 167,000 14,600 - 21,500
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Sommeil
1960
Bronze, edition no. 1/6
36(L) x 13(W) x 11(H) cm
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Estimate
550,000 - 800,000 141,000 - 206,000 18,200 - 26,500
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Nu accroupi
1970
Bronze, edition no. 3/6
31(L) x 13(W) x 12.8(H) cm
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Estimate
480,000 - 700,000 123,000 - 180,000 15,900 - 23,200
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