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 / ĂTATIS SUĂ ANNO XXII / MCMXXV Provenance: Italy, private collection Exhibitions and bibliography: Prima mostra chiavarese dâarte moderna, Chiavari, Palazzo di Giustizia, solo exhibition: Room III, p.…
Edmondo Poletti – Self-Portrait with Palette and Nude
Edmondo Poletti (Novara 1908-Ghemme (Novara) 1979) Self-Portrait with Palette and Nude 1931 Oil on canvas, 77 x 62 cm Signed and dated lower right: POLETTI / â31 A painter and sculptor who was largely self-taught, although showing signs of a culture of European breadth â he made numerous trips and sojourns abroad, in particular…
Ettore Ferrari – Cum Spartaco pugnavit
Ettore Ferrari Rome, 1845-1929 Cum Spartaco Pugnavit 1877 Terracotta, height 36 cm Initialled and dated: âEF 1877â 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…
Mario Broglio – Bathing in the Park (preparatory drawing)
Mario Broglio (Piacenza 1891 â San Michele di Moriano 1948) Bathing in the Park (preparatory drawing) 1938 ca. Pencil on paper, 1100 x 1830 mm
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…
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…
Giuseppe Bossi – Aeneas wears his arms rushing into the vain defense of Troy, by now fallen
Giuseppe Bossi (Busto Arsizio 1777-Milan 1815) Aeneas wears his arms rushing into the vain defense of Troy, by now fallen 1795-1800 circa Pencil, brownish ink pen, grey ink watercolor on paper, 352 x 480 mm On the verso traces of pencil Provenance: Italy, private collection In dialogue with the models of Canova’s reliefs of Virgilian subjects, during his study sojourn in Rome, the painter-poet verifies the expressive possibilities of the subject of history in relation…
Fabrizio Galliari – Great temple dedicated to Bacchus
Fabrizio Galliari (Andorno Micca (BIella) 1709 â Treviglio 1790) Fabrizio Galliari – Great temple dedicated to Bacchus âą 1771 matita, matita, penna e acquerello su carta, studio di quadro scenico per Andromeda, dramma per musica di Giuseppe Colla, libretto di Vittorio Amedeo Cigna-Santi, rappresentato al Teatro Regio di Torino nel 1771, c130 t. XI
Carlo Romagnoli – Male portrait
Carlo Romagnoli (Rome 1888 -1965) Male portrait 1913 Oil on canvas, 75.5 x 45 cm Signed upper right: C. Romagnoli-/Rome MCMXIII Provenance: Italy, private collection The Roman artist Carlo Romagnoli trained at the capitalâs Accademia di Belle Arti and associated Scuola Libera del Nudo. His debut came early, in 1905 at the Promotrice. From…