David: presentation

Giovanni David – Birth of the Virgin

Giovanni David (Cabella 1743 – Genoa 1790) Birth of the Virgin 1784-1785 Black ink pen, polychrome watercolors, tempera on paper, 507 x 485 mm Provenance: Rome, private collection Executed in pandant with Presentation of the Virgin at the Temple, it is presumably the presentation drawing for the commission of the Birth of the Vergin for…

Zecchin - credenza

Vittorio Zecchin – Credenza (sideboard), bench

Vittorio Zecchin (Murano 1878–1947) Credenza (Sideboard) 1920-1923 ca. Black lacquered oak wood with purpura arabesque engravings, 110.5 x 137.5 x 52 cm Provenance: Brescia, Mirko Lupezza collection.     Bench 1920-1923 ca. Lacquered and painted wood piece of furniture, 148 x 134 x 56 cm Bibliography: I. de Guttry, M.P. Maino, M. Quesada, Le arti…

Giulio Bargellini – Study for Idyll (Self-Portrait)

Giulio Bargellini Florence 1875-Rome 1936 Study for Idyll (Self-Portrait) 1892-95 Oil on canvas, 21 Ă— 38 cm Signed lower centre: “Giulio Bargellini” Provenance: Rome, heirs of the artist; Rome, Galleria dell’Emporio Floreale, 1982; Rome, private collection Bibliography: Pasqualina Spadini, Opere inedite di Giulio Bargellini: oli-pastelli-carboncini-studi di architetture e progetti per mosaici dal 1890 al 1936,…

Giuseppe Piccone – Boxeur

Giuseppe Piccone (Albisola Superiore, 1912 – Albissola Marittima, 1960) Boxeur 1930-35 ca. Provenance: Lombardy, private collection Wood, black paint, cm h. 120 x 82 x 39.5 cm Of the Boxeur by the Ligurian Giuseppe Piccone are known two versions, different for dimensions and pose of the figure. This specimen, the bigger in size, sculpted in…

Alberto Martini – Vanitas with Self-Portrait

Alberto Martini   (Oderzo 1876-Milan 1954)  Vanitas with Self-Portrait  c 1920  Pastel on paper, 54 × 46 cm   Signed “AM ALBERTO MARTINI”  Provenance: Padua, private collection    Alberto Martini, the great imaginative designer and symbolist illustrator, who interpreted with aristocratic dandyism the figure of decadent artist, later recognised as precursor of surrealism, also experimented with more accurate and realistic visions in…

Achille Funi – Self-Portrait

Achille Funi (Ferrara 1890-Appiano Gentile 1972) Self-Portrait  1942 Watercolour and pencil on paper, 380 Ă— 310 mm Signed bottom left: “A. Funi” Exhibition labels on the back of the original mount: Galleria del Milione, Milan, 1942, 3069/3; Galleria dei Serpenti, Rome; Finarte, Rome, 1984. Provenance: Rome, private collection After the experience of Futurism, filtered through CĂ©zanne and Cubism, he adheres to the general Return…