Eleuterio Riccardi

Eleuterio Riccardi (born December 6, 1884 in Coldragone ; † June 19, 1963 ) was an Italian sculptor and painter.

Riccardi, who came from a family of potters, came to Rome in 1900 and made his debut as a sculptor in 1902. His first teacher was Giovanni Prini , who had gathered around a group of young futuristic artists such as Giacomo Balla , Mario Sironi and Umberto Boccioni . In 1912 he went to Munich, where he received a prize for the sculpture Il fornaciaio, ritratto del padre , which was created under the impression of a Van Gogh exhibition in Berlin.

From 1915 he exhibited his first works in Rome, and in 1918 he organized the Mostra d'arte indipendente with Mario Recchi , in which Carlo Carrà , Giorgio de Chirico , Ferruccio Ferrazzi , Enrico Prampolini and Ardengo Soffici , among others , participated and he himself with seven paintings and six sculptures involved.

In 1921 he went to London with his wife and daughter and there, commissioned by Lady Cunard, made a bust of the composer Frederick Delius , which was exhibited in the National Gallery and a copy in the Tate Gallery . He became an important portraitist of the English nobility and created 38 sculptures in the course of a year, which were exhibited in the Goupil Gallery and the Royal Academy of Arts .

After his return to Italy he made portrait sculptures by Nicola Moscardelli , Ferruccio Scattola and Corrado Alvaro , among others , and Riccardi won first prize at the Quadriennale in 1935 with the marble sculpture Attesa . In 1940 he had a solo exhibition in Milan. During the war years he increasingly turned to painting. He participated in the 1960 Quadriennale with a collection of abstract green ceramic sculptures.

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SURNAME	Riccardi, Eleuterio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian sculptor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH	December 6, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH	Coldragone
DATE OF DEATH	June 19, 1963