Still Life with Fruit

Oil painting on canvas. Of ancient taste, the painting proposes a composition of mixed late summer fruit (grapes, figs, lemons, melette) in a large worked basin, flanked by two other smaller bowls with blackberries and hazelnuts. The bright colors of the fruits stand out against the dark background, enhanced by the bright red of the tablecloth. The painting is presented in a gilded frame from the end of the 19th century.

Cristoforo De Amicis

Hilly Landscape

Oil painting on canvas. Signed lower right. Further signature and title on the back. Cristoforo De Amicis was artistically trained first at the Albertina Academy in Turin, then at the Brera Academy in Milan, the city where he resided all his life, painting and teaching at the Academy. At the beginning of the 1930s he temporarily left his career as a painter to devote himself to architecture, but then returned to figurative painting. In the years of the Second World War he approached post-Cubist expressions, but from the 1960s, thanks to the severe depression that hit his wife, the artist switched to a more intimate production, in which the theme of the nude and that of the still life. At the end of the 1970s he also returned to paint the landscapes of the Lodi countryside, such as the one proposed here, which flanked still lifes, floral compositions, the Madonnas: in this production De Amicis switched to a style close to Chiarism, which was very successful . The painting is presented in a frame.

Cristoforo De Amicis

August morning the Trees

Oil painting on canvas. Signed lower right. Further signature and title on the back; this stamp of Milan art gallery. Cristoforo De Amicis was artistically trained first at the Albertina Academy in Turin, then at the Brera Academy in Milan, the city where he resided all his life, painting and teaching at the Academy. At the beginning of the 1930s he temporarily left his career as a painter to devote himself to architecture, but then returned to figurative painting. In the years of the Second World War he approached post-Cubist expressions, but from the 1960s, thanks to the severe depression that hit his wife, the artist switched to a more intimate production, in which the theme of the nude and that of the still life. At the end of the 1970s he also returned to paint the landscapes of the Lodi countryside, such as the one proposed here, which flanked still lifes, floral compositions, the Madonnas: in this production De Amicis switched to a style close to Chiarism, which was very successful . The painting is presented in a frame.

Cristoforo De Amicis

Afternoon

Oil painting on canvas. Signed lower right. Further signature and title on the back. Cristoforo De Amicis was artistically trained first at the Albertina Academy in Turin, then at the Brera Academy in Milan, the city where he resided all his life, painting and teaching at the Academy. At the beginning of the 1930s he temporarily left his career as a painter to devote himself to architecture, but then returned to figurative painting. In the years of the Second World War he approached post-Cubist expressions, but from the 1960s, thanks to the severe depression that hit his wife, the artist switched to a more intimate production, in which the theme of the nude and that of the still life. At the end of the 1970s he also returned to paint the landscapes of the Lodi countryside, such as the one proposed here, which flanked still lifes, floral compositions, the Madonnas: in this production De Amicis switched to a style close to Chiarism, which was very successful . The painting is presented in a frame.

Pompeo Borra

Female face

Mixed media on paper. applied to canvas. Signed lower right. Pompeo Borra was an important exponent of 20th century Milanese painting. His severe purist painting proposes squared images and compact volumes, blocked and silent situations inhabited by everyday objects and dreamy and immobile characters, mostly female. From the 1950s to 1960s Pompeo Borra abandons the solid and monumental volumes of his previous works and introduces the two-dimensionality, the bright colors and the extreme synthesis of the figures, always immersed in an atmosphere of metaphysical suspension, which connote the style of the his late works. The work is presented in a frame.

Alberto Trevisan

Four Venetian Night Glimpses

Watercolor on paper. Signed lower left. These are four delicate nocturnal views, in the moonlight, of Venetian corners, played on shades of blue. Alberto Trevisan is a valid Venetian watercolorist, specialized in glimpses of the lagoon city. In frame.

Leonardo's Last Supper

Textile Reproduction

Textile reproduction in silk, in two colors. Made to a design by T. Strazza, as shown below on the left. The faithful reproduction of Leonardo's painting is part of a flourishing Lombard manufacturing production, which re-proposed the masterpiece in different formats. The work is presented in a contemporary wooden frame.

Landscape with Figures

Oil painting on canvas. Italian school. Signed G. Bossi lower right. The large landscape offers on the right the glimpse of a pond with swans, in the middle of a verdant countryside; on the left, a couple on the path is accessing an architectural structure, an outbuilding of the villa of which you can only glimpse an upper corner. Suggestive and with a bucolic atmosphere, the painting is presented in a coeval gilded frame.

Face of The Virgin Oil on Plywood 1930s

Oil on plywood. The painting recalls the Renaissance's techniques. At the bottom left there is a monograme. It comes in a coeval perchment covered frame.

Landscape with Shephers and Herd Oil on Canvas 1919

Oil on canvas. Signature and date at the bottom right. The landscape shows a barren upland with snowy mountains in the background that might be the andine chain as we can deduce from the shepherd's clothes. Even if it is an amateur painting, it is a good art piece, the chromatic rendering is efficient and the light is unique. The painting comes in a coeval frame. It shows color drops.

Giuseppe Biasi From Teulada Lito Engraving 20th Century

Genre Scene

Lito engraving. signed at the bottom right; serie number 29/50 at the bottom left. Giuseppe Biasi From Teulada was born in Sassari and he had been an important Sardinian artist, painter, engraver and illustrator in 20th century. Frame.

Decorative Panel Oil on Canvas 20th Century

Oil on canvas. The decorative panel shows a oval floral decoration of garlands and shoot that frames a vase full of colorfull flowers.