Female Nude - SOLD

Renata Cuneo (Savona 1903 – 1995) “... a sculptress of intellect and heart, of culture and calculation ...” [Renata Cuneo, Personal Exhibition Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, Sigla, 1981]. Her career began in 1922 in Florence, where she attended the Academy of Fine Arts, a cultural environment in constant turmoil, in contact with the major sculptors of her time. From 1927 she began to exhibit and participate in exhibitions and Biennales throughout Italy. By choice, she decided to live in a small town like Savona, which she loved so much and from which she received equal love and recognition; hers is the fountain in Piazza Marconi "man and shark" (8 quintals of bronze) and the "monument to the sailor" placed in the old dock (to name a few). In her works, one can read, not citations but personal refined and lucid reinterpretations, references to the world that surrounded her, in a perfect balance between content and shaping the material, surpassing the form itself; “it has a sound, she said, and that's what must be stopped, not the volumes alone or the shadows, a timbre that is as clear as it should be that of the angels” (Gina Lagorio, 1964). In 1986 she donated to her city a substantial quantity of works, drawings, plaster sculptures, bronze and terracotta, preserved in the fortress of Priamar in a permanent museum. This bronze work of ours, from the 1940s, depicts a nude of a young woman, to be watched in silence, in that silent homage that for Cuneo was more precious than a critical article. Dimensions: height 38 cm