Marie-Renée Ucciani

Marie-Renée Ucciani (27 March 1883 – 19 February 1963) was a French painter and sculptor. A member of the Société des Artistes Français, she exhibited in its Salon in the 1930s.

Biography Marie-Renée Ucciani was born in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris on 27 March 1883. Her father was , a painter, jeweler and goldsmith. Her mother, Hortense (née Bégard), was an heiress and the manager of an important jeweler and goldsmith business, "Bégard H. et Cie".

In May 1903, she married Georges Baudy (1880-1960), who took over the business, "Bégard H. et Cie" on 8 February 1911. Their youngest daughter died at the age of two following a fall in the Tuileries Garden, which destabilized the marriage. Ucciani divorced and tried to forget this tragedy by painting and sculpting.

Ucciani was introduced to painting at a very young age by her father. From 1906, she painted in Villers-sur-Mer in the company of Léon Giran-Max, her cousin , and her father, in a style influenced by Post-Impressionism and Fauvism. and was buried in the Bégard family chapel in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.

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