Ugo Matania (18881979) was an Italian artist and illustrator active in Britain during the

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, particularly noted for his works for '' The Sphere'' and ''

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''. Three of his oil paintings and one of his watercolours are in the

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in London.

Life

He was born in

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, the nephew of Eduardo Matania and the first cousin of Fortunino Matania, both also artists. In 1911 he received a degree in Advertising Diagram and Design and two years later moved to London, remaining there until 1924. On his return to Italy he worked for ''

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'' and their fortnightly magazine '' Il Romanzo per Tutti''. He was still exhibiting in 1948 and also produced marble stations of the cross for the church of Maria Santissima del Carmine in

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