Giuseppe Gandolfo – Self-portrait in Shakespearean (or Van Dick) costume
Giuseppe Gandolfo Catania 1792-1855 Self-portrait in Shakespearean (or Van Dick) costume • 1815-20 ca. Oil on canvas, 102 x 82 cm
Martin Knoller – Portrait of Giuseppe Piermarini
Martin Knoller Steinach am Brenner 1725-Milan 1804 Portrait of Giuseppe Piermarini • 1779 Olio on panel, 72,3 x 56,3 cm Signed and dated: “Martin Knoller Pinxit 1779” Labels on backside: “Comune di Firenze/Mostra del Ritratto italiano 1911/C.te Dott. Tommaso Valenti/Trevi”; “Mostra del Giardino Italiano, Firenze 1931-IX, Inventario 1088” Bibliography and exhibitions: Mostra del Ritratto italiano…
Johann Liss – Sleeping Nymph
Johann Liss Oldenburg 1595/97-Verona1631 Sleeping Nymph • 1619-25 Oil on canvas, 67,5 x 43,5 cm This exquisite painting of a sensual female figure asleep might portray a nymph, considering the rustic setting, while the detail in the top right, a nocturnal gleam, could suggest it is Ariadne asleep, abandoned by Theseus on the island of…
Giacomo Massa – Adoration of the Child
Giacomo Massa Rome 1596-post 1635 Adoration of the Child • Oil on canvas 99.2 x 136 cm The Adoration of the Child, depicted at night, with Mary, Joseph, Jesus in the manger and a pair of angels in the background whose wings can just be made out in the half-light, is the work of Giacomo…
Angelo Modotto – Self-portrait
ANGELO MODOTTO (Udine 1900 -1968) Self-portrait 1936 Oil on paper on canvas, 57 x 43.5 cm Provenance: Italy, private collection
Roberto Melli – The Worker
ROBERTO MELLI (Ferrara 1885 – Rome 1958) The Worker 1940 Oil on canvas, 70 x 60 cm Provenance: Rome, Luisa and Giuseppe Natale collection; Rome, Pasquale Natale collection Bibliography: Roberto Melli, exh. cat., Ferrara, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna Palazzo dei Diamanti, text by Rossana Bossaglia, Ferrara 1975, cat. 63; Roberto Melli, presentation of Antonio Del…
Francesco Olivucci – Aeronautical and Naval Sciences
FRANCESCO OLIVUCCI (Forlì 1899 – 1985) Aeronautical and Naval Sciences 1937 Tempera and charcoal on cardboard, 250 x 250 cm Provenance: Forlì, private collection Bibliography: Arte e vita in Italia tra le due guerre, catalogo della mostra, Forlì, Musei di San Domenico, Edited by Fernando Mazzocca, Cinisello Balsamo 2013, p. 185.
Marco Calderini – The Po River at Turin
MARCO CALDERINI (Turin 1850 – 1941) The Po River at Turin 1880 Oil on canvas, 120 x 228 cm Signed lower left “M. Calderini” On backside cartouche of the Esposizione Nazionale di Torino of the 1880 Provenance: Piedmont, private collection Bibliography and Exhibitions: IV Esposizione Nazionale. XXXIX Esposizione SocietĂ Promotrice delle Belle Arti di Torino,…
Cesare Laurenti – Study of Head: Elegiac Motif
Cesare Laurenti Mesola, Ferrara 1854-Venice 1936 Study of Head: Elegiac Motif 1895 Oil on panel 58.5 x 96 Signed lower right: “C. Laurenti” Provenance: Rome, private collection Bibliography: Mario Morasso, “Artisti contemporanei: Cesare Laurenti”, in Emporium, January 1902, vol. XV, nr. 85, p. 13 (ill.), 14; Cristina Beltrami, “Cesare Laurenti: dalla pittura di genere all’idea”,…
Emanuele Rambaldi – Self-Portrait
Emanuele Rambaldi (Pieve di Teco, Imperia 1903-Savona 1968) Self-Portrait 1925 Oil on panel, 45 x 35 cm Signed and dated on the scroll lower centre: EMANUELE RAMBALDI / ÆTATIS SUÆ ANNO XXII / MCMXXV Provenance: Italy, private collection Exhibitions and bibliography: Prima mostra chiavarese d’arte moderna, Chiavari, Palazzo di Giustizia, solo exhibition: Room III, p.…