# Red Hug

Cuddemi returns again and again to the hand - reaching, holding, almost touching. It is where connection begins and where it is most honestly felt. Arms intertwine in something between tension and tenderness, the gesture carrying everything. No faces are needed. In her work, a hand becomes a whole conversation.

[Browse all works by Flavia Cuddemi](/collections/flavia-cuddemi)

## Details

- **Price:** 1800.0 USD
- **Vendor:** Art Scout
- **Type:** Work on Paper
- **Tags:** buy original art online, figurative painting, figure study, Flavia Cuddemi, under 2500, watercolor, work on paper

## Variants

| Variant | Price | Available |
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| Default Title | 1800.00 USD | In stock |

## Images

- Red Hug – watercolor by Cuddemi with arms intertwining in deep red in something between tension and tenderness, hand and arm carrying everything as whole conversation without needing faces or setting
- Red Hug by Cuddemi – detail of deep red interlocking arms in watercolor where connection begins and is most honestly felt
- Red Hug by Cuddemi – full watercolor of red entwined arms as complete conversation about tension and tenderness
- Red Hug by Cuddemi – close-up of red watercolor arm gesture breathing against white ground
- Red Hug by Cuddemi – artwork in room context
- Red Hug

## Additional Information

- **Dimensions:** 27.6"×19.7"
- **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