Antoniucci VOLTI (1915-1989). Riding. Bronze with green patina signed, numbered 2/6 and bearing the mention of the founder J. Cappelli on the back (wear to the patina). Height : 34 cm. 34 cm - Width : 54 cm Graduated from the school of Decorative Arts of Nice, Antoniucci Volti settled in Paris in 1932 as a student of the sculptor Jean Boucher. Son of a stonecutter, the artist confronts classical sculpture with the artistic effervescence of Paris in the 1930s. Already renowned at the time, his career took a real turn in 1943 when, on his return from the war, he found his studio burnt down and most of his production destroyed. From then on, following in the artistic footsteps of Bourdelle and especially Maillol, often considered his spiritual master, Volti drew and sculpted his main subject of inspiration, the female body. Both in the numerous public commissions for monumental works and in the original bronzes that we present here, Volti never ceased to try to render artistically sensitive the "architecture of the female body". Always eager to anchor his creation in the tradition of the history of sculpture, Volti will bring together in one of his most striking works two of the most fundamental subjects of the history of art, the woman and the horse, taking a new step in his quest for architecture and dynamism of form.