Carlo Labruzzi – Ruins of the Mausoleum of Gallienus
Carlo Labruzzi (Rome 1748-Perugia 1817) Ruins of the Mausoleum of Gallienus 1789 pencil and water-color on paper, 415 x 542 mm Provenance: Italy, private collection
Carlo Labruzzi – Villa of Domitian at Castel Gandolfo
Carlo Labruzzi (Rome 1748-Perugia 1817) Recto: Villa of Domitian at Castel Gandolfo Verso: verso: Study for the Sepulcrum of Favio Nauta near Fondi pencil and water-color on paper, 415 x 542 mm Provenienza: Italy, private collection
John Ruskin (attr.) – Palace Bevilacqua in Verona by Sanmicheli, seen from San Lorenzo
John Ruskin (attr.) (Londra 1819-Brantwood 1900) Palace Bevilacqua in Verona by Sanmicheli, seen from the medieval courtyard of the church of San Lorenzo 1850 ca. Red ink pen, blu ink water-color on brownish paper, 273 x 405 mm Inscribed upper left: Renaissance
Alberto Martini – Hop-Frog
Alberto Martini (Oderzo 1876-Milan 1954) Hop-Frog 1907 Pen and India ink on paper, 251 x 180 mm Signed in pen lower centre: A. MARTINI.; title in pen lower centre: HOP-FROG; Dated on the back in pencil: 1907; stamped: Galleria d’Arte Spotorno Milano Provenance: Saronno, Tischer collection; Rome, private collection Provenienza: Saronno, collezione Tischer; Roma, collezione…
Alberto Martini – The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Alberto Martini (Oderzo 1876- Milano 1954) The Murders in the Rue Morgue 1908 Pen and indian ink on paper, 251 x 182 mm Signed in pen lower centre: A / MARTINI; title in pen lower centre: DOUBLE / ASSASSINAT / DANS LA RUE MORGUE On the back, date in pencil: 1908; stamped: Galleria d’Arte Spotorno…
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
Giuseppe Mazzullo – The Horse
Giuseppe Mazzullo Graniti 1913 – Taormina 1988 The Horse • 1966 Stone, 52 x 43 x 18 cm (on original pedestal h. 114 cm (total h. 157 cm), probably by the sculptor Franco Cannilla (Caltagirone 1911-Rome 1945)) Bibliography: “Carte Segrete” rivista trimestrale di Lettere e Arti, n. 8; F. Bellonzi, F. Costabile, Mazzullo Autoritratto, Rome,…