# Figure I

A torso rendered almost entirely in blush and dusty rose, the pigment pooling and diffusing into the white of the paper so that the body seems to emerge from the surface rather than be placed on it. Cuddemi works with watercolor the way a sculptor works with light - not adding detail, but allowing form to appear through the gentlest pressure. Trained as a biomedical engineer before leaving it all for drawing, she brings an unusual precision to this apparent looseness. The figure is unposed, unhurried, and utterly human.

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## Details

- **Price:** 950.0 USD
- **Vendor:** Art Scout
- **Type:** Original Painting
- **Tags:** buy original art online, figurative painting, Flavia Cuddemi, nude, oil painting, original painting, under 2500, watercolor

## Variants

| Variant | Price | Available |
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| Default Title | 950.00 USD | In stock |

## Images

- Figure I – watercolor by Cuddemi with torso rendered in blush and dusty rose pooling and diffusing into white paper so body emerges from surface rather than being placed on it, biomedical-engineer-turned-artist precision in apparent looseness
- Figure I by Cuddemi – detail of blush and dusty rose watercolor diffusing into white paper around unposed human torso
- Figure I by Cuddemi – full watercolor of torso emerging from surface in warm rose tones through gentlest pressure on white paper
- Figure I by Cuddemi – close-up of pigment pooling at body forms in blush and dusty rose watercolor on white ground
- Figure I by Cuddemi – artwork in room context showing companion piece to Figure II
- Figure I

## Additional Information

- **Dimensions:** 20"×13.5"
- **Artist Material:** Watercolor on paper
- **Artist Name:** Flavia Cuddemi
- **About The Artist Link:** https://www.artscout.pro/collections/flavia-cuddemi

### About The Artist Content

Flavia Cuddemi is a Sicilian-born painter and illustrator based in Rome. Before devoting herself fully to art, she studied biomedical engineering in Pisa, a background that quietly informs the precision and curiosity she brings to her practice.

Cuddemi works in watercolor, drawn to its resistance to full control, a quality she sees as a mirror of life itself. Her paintings explore two connected worlds: the intimacy of the human body, where hands reach and figures hold each other in gestures that feel both tender and charged, and vast open landscapes, where solitary figures stand within expansive horizons and shifting skies, small against everything around them.

Together, her work asks questions about touch, solitude, and what it means to belong - to another person, to a place, to oneself.

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> Updated: 2026-08-28