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 Società Promotrice delle Belle Arti di Torino,…
Ubaldo Oppi – Portrait of a Young Man from Cadore
Ubaldo Oppi (Bologna 1889-Vicenza 1942)) Portrait of a Young Man from Cadore 1927 Pencil on paper, 378 x 268 mm Signed and dated lower right: Oppi 27 Provenenance: Milan, Galleria d’Arte Sforza; Italy, private collection
Giovacchino (Rome 1756-1822) e Pietro Belli (1780-1828) – Monument to Maria Christina of Austria, from Canova
Giovacchino (Rome 1756-1822) and Pietro Belli (1780-1828) Monument to Maria Cristina of Austria, from Canova 1815 ca. Carrara statuary marble, black marble, hammered bronze, chiseled and gilded with double gilding, 21.7 x 18.5 x 7 cm Provenance: Italy, private collection This very refined scale reduction of the Monument to Maria Cristina of Austria by Canova, judged by Stendhal to be the most beautiful monument ever built, testifies to the cult of contemporaries for the great sculptor and the collecting taste for precious replicas of his inventions in different techniques, from gilded bronze…
Edoardo De Albertis – Allegorical Female Figure with a Festoon
Edoardo De Albertis Genoa 1874-1950 Allegorical Female Figure with a Festoon (possible study for the War Memorial of Genoa or the War Memorial of Cesarena) • 1923 ca. Original plaster sketch, 40 x 30 x 33 cm
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”,…
Carmine Tripodi – Self-portrait
Carmine Tripodi (Oppido Mamertina (Reggio Calabria) 1899 – Rome 1968) Self-portrait 1926 plaster, 52 x 22 x 20 cm
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.…