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Giuseppe Bossi – Symposium and figures studies

Giuseppe Bossi (Busto Arsizio 1777-Milan 1815) Scene of an ancient style symposium, with self-portrait in the centre (recto) Study of head and figures reclining at the banquet (verso) circa 1810 Pen and pencil on paper, 445 × 580 mm Rubber-stamped in the centre: “BOSSI” Provenance: Milan private collection   Depicting an ancient symposium that recalls…

Mario Mafai – Vase of dahlias with bunch of grapes

Mario Mafai (Rome 1902-1965) Vase of dahlias with bunch of grapes 1954 Oil on canvas, 66 x 50 cm Signed and dated bottom right: “Mafai 54” Provenance: Rome, private collection   The painting’s changed colours recall the constant expressive flair of the artist, protagonist with Scipione and his wife Antonietta Raphael of an eccentric line…

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Bortolo Sacchi – Selfportrait as a Saint

Bortolo Sacchi (Venice 1892- Bassano 1978) Self-Portrait as a Saint 1920 c. Tempera on cardboard, 69 x 51 cm On the back, in a scroll glued to the frame: “Nihil nisi divinum” Bibliography: Dal Canton, Stringa 2000, p. 87, no.17 Exhibition: Bortolo Sacchi 1892-1978, Bassano, Palazzo Bonaguro, September – November 2000 Provenance: Veneto, private collection…

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Adolfo Callegari – Portrait of Gino Tasinato

Adolfo Callegari (Padua 1882-Arquà Petrarca 1948) Portrait of Signor Tasinato (Portrait of Gino Tasinato), 1912 Oil on canvas, 76 x 60 cm On the back “O.F.B.F / estate 1912”, “esposto a Venezia a Cà Pesaro”, “dipinto di Adolfo Callegari ritratto del sig. Tasinato Gino all’epoca” (“O.F.B.F / summer 1912”, “exhibited in Venice at Cà Pesaro”, “painted by…

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Sigmund Lipinsky – Young Girl

Sigmund Lipinsky Grudziądz 1873 – Rome 1940 Young Girl 1914 Pencil and pastel on paper, 29 x 26 cm Signed lower left «S Lipinsky Roma 14» Bibliography: Catalogo 1914, p. 51, n. 264 Exhibitions: I Esposizione Internazionale del Bianco e Nero, Firenze, 1914;   Noted above all for his production in drawing, Sigmund Lipinsky was…

Laura Bellini – Portrait of a Man

Laura Bellini (Ancona 1915-Rome 1976)  Portrait of a Man  Oil on panel, 50.5 × 40 cm  Provenance: Rome, private collection    A rare work by this artist, considered one of the last exponents of the Roman School. Contributing to the Mayoral exhibitions of the years 1937, 1938 and 1940 as well as the Quadriennale of 1939 (Renato Breda, 1890-1940. Artisti e Mostre. Repertorio di pittori e incisori italiani in esposizioni nazionali, Rome 2001,…

Umberto Pinzauti – Vase: “Welcome Spring…”

Umberto Pinzauti (Florence 1886–Ravenna 1960)  Vase: “Welcome Spring…”  Circa 1915  Bronze with wooden base, h 27.3 cm  Inscription in centre of vase: Ben venga maggio e l gonfalon selvaggio, ben venga primavera che vuol l’uom s’innamori (Welcome May and the flowering boughs, welcome Spring so that man falls in love).  On side of base: Paying tribute to the President, united youth offers this with affection. Signed on base: Pinzauti  Provenance: Rome, private collection    Attentive to the impact of Viennese Liberty, in 1909 he carries out the pictorial decorations of the newly–built small villa–cum-studio of Galileo Chini, in Florence. These…

Luigi Galli – Evil Clinging to Humanity

Luigi Galli (Milan 1820-Rome 1900)  Evil Clinging to Humanity  Circa 1885  Oil on canvas, 60 × 39 cm   Provenance: Rome, private collection     Initiated to the plastic neoclassicism of Luigi Sabatelli and aware of the developments of European painting, in particular in France – above all Millet and Courbet – and England – where George Frederic Watts is his main point of reference -, he develops his own particular variation of the romantic symbolist atmosphere, enveloping it in elements that…