Pieretto Bianco – View of New York 2

Pieretto Bianco (Pseudonym of Pietro Bianco Bortoluzzi) Trieste 1875 – Bologna 1937 View of New York • 1920 charcoal and pastel on blue paper,  625 x 480 mm Signed and dated lower right: “Pieretto Bianco / N.Y. 19” Bibliography: Disegni del XIX e XX secolo. Catalogo di vendita n. 12 – 1988, edited by Mauro…

Pieretto Bianco – View of New York 1

Pieretto Bianco (Pseudonym of Pietro Bianco Bortoluzzi) Trieste 1875 – Bologna 1937 View of New York • 1919 charcoal and pastel on blue paper,  616 x 474 mm Signed and dated lower right: “Pieretto Bianco / N.Y. 19” Bibliography: Disegni del XIX e XX secolo. Catalogo di vendita n. 12 – 1988, edited by Mauro…

Ettore Ferrari – Cum Spartaco pugnavit

Ettore Ferrari Rome, 1845-1929 Cum Spartaco Pugnavit 1877 Terracotta, height 36 cm Initialled and dated: “EF 1877” Provenance: Rome, Bruno Mantura collection Bibliography: Bruno Mantura, Ettore Ferrari. Sculture tra il 1867 e il 1880, in Capitolium, XLIX (1974), 7-8, pp. 41-50; Enrico Guidoni, Il gesto della Rivoluzione. Il Bruto di Ettore Ferrari e la linea…

Alberto Martini – Portrait of Vittorio Pica

Alberto Martini (Oderzo 1876-Milan 1954) Portrait of Vittorio Pica 1912 Pen and India ink on paper, with traces of light green, blue and brown watercolour, 675 x 535 mm Signed in pen lower left: ALBERTO MARTINI and dated lower right: ROMA. INVERNO 1912; title in pen lower centre: VITTORIO PICA On the back, label: Galleria…

Alberto Martini – Some Words with a Mummy

Alberto Martini (Oderzo 1876-Milan 1954) Some Words with a Mummy 1908 Pen and Indian ink on paper, 354 x 254 mm Signed and dated in pen, on the border, lower left: ALBERTO. MARTINI / 1908 and in pencil beneath to the right: A. Martini; title in pen lower centre: PETITE DISCUSSION AVEC UNE MOMIE; inscription…

Alberto Martini – The Holy Thorns

Alberto Martini (Oderzo 1876-Milan 1954) The Holy Thorns 1897 China pen on paper, affixed to paper support, 158 x 345 mm Signed and dated lower right on title block: AMartini 97; signed, dated and inscribed on the support, lower left to right, in pen: “ALBERTO MARTINI. 1897. | LE SPINE SANTE | “IL POEMA DEL…

Ennemond-Alexandre Petitot – Grenadier Ă  la Grecque

Ennemond-Alexandre Petitot (Lione 1727-Marore (Parma) 1801) Grenadier Ă  la Grecque 1771 Brown watercolored ink pen on paper, 315 x 250 mm, within coeval Parma frame Provenance: Parma, private collection The drawing, preparatory for one of the etching engraved by Benigno Bossi for the famous Mascarade Ă  la Grecque, emblematically testifies to the spread of the…