ANTONIUCCI VOLTI (1915-1989) Les Parisiennes aux chapeaux, 1962 - Large model. Proof in bronze with a blue-black patina. Signed on the base. Valsuani foundry stamp, numbered 3/8 on the side of the base. Height: 147 cm - Width: 65 cm - Depth: 38 cm. Dark-blue patinated bronze Signed on the base Foundry stamp Valsuani and numbered 3/8 on the side of the base Height: 57 1/2 in. A certificate of authenticity from the Indivision Antoniucci Volti will be given to the buyer. Provenance Private collection Exhibition "Volti architecte de la sensualité des Méditerranéennes aux Parisiennes", touring exhibition in China, 8 August 2014 - 4 March 2015, n°10, a similar example reproduced in the catalogue page 43 Château de Maintenon, May to October 2016. This work is part of a series of sculptures on this theme, Les Parisiennes, the first of which, about a metre high, was presented in 1958 at the Salon des Peintres de leur Temps, the theme of which was Parisiennes. This series of representations of Parisian women by Volti culminated in 1992 with the creation of a stone sculpture of this model in Garges-lès-Gonesse, which has unfortunately now disappeared.