Christian Davies Antiques Ltd has dated this piece to the 1930s.
Ugo CIPRIANI (1897-1960):
Ugo Cipriani is an Italian sculptor who was born in Florence the 13th of August 1897. Son of a sculptor, he studied at the famous Academy of Fine Arts of Florence.
Around 1935, he left Italy for France to escape from Mussolini's fascist government. He lived in Paris as a political refugee where he kept on working his craft until his death. He produced many fine art deco style statuary items in various media, including bronze, spelter and terracotta, often neo-classic subjects, in the taste of the Antiquity men heads and busts, athletes and hunters, naked women, mother and child, kids and animals, in the style of Demetre Chiparus or Joe de Roncourt.
As many Italian sculptors are named 'Cipriani' and signed without their first name, he is often confused with Adolfo Cipriani (active 1880-1925), author of many alabaster busts of young ladies in the 1900 style, or with the painter and sculptor Giovanni Pinotti Cipriani (XXth c.) who exhibited in Paris since 1903.
He died in Paris in June 1960.
Dimensions: 22" high x 5" deep x 6.5" wide
Condition: This bronze is in excellent original condition, minor chip to the marble base
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Christian Davies Antiques Ltd has dated this piece to the 1930s.
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An Art Deco Period Bronze Signed By Cipriani
