Glass Photo Frame

Photo frame in chiseled and ground glass of Italian production.

Glass valet tray

Pocket emptier in solid and colorless glass.

Tray by Paolo De Poli Copper Enamel Italy 1950s

Copper and polychromed enamel bowl. Manufacture's brand under the base. Lightly damaged

Murano Glass Bowls Murano Italy 1950s Murano's Manufacture

Group of 3 blown glass bows of differetn shapes and processing. The square shaped transparent glass bowl has a lightly rainbowed surface while the other two are embellished by small air bubbles and gilded.

Pair of Glass Lamps Murano Italy 1950s

Pair of Venini's style colorless glass lamps.

Glass Bottle Murano Italy 1950s Seguso Manufacture

Damaged green glass bottle.

50s Manual Washing Machine

1950s Manual Washing Machine in metal and aluminum.

Kosta Boda Vicke Lindstrand Glass Sculpture Sweden 1950s-1960s

Sculpture made of chiseled glass with bas-relief ornament depicting a moose. Manufactured in Sweden, 1950s-1960s

Giorgio Oprandi

Landscape

Oil on the table. Signed lower right. The landscape, with mountains looming over the lake, is characterized by the play of colors, used in only two ranges: sky, mountains and lake are distinguished only by the soft shades of blue, while the aquatic plants and the thin strip of flat land, create green detachments. Born in Lovere, in the province of Bergamo, Giorgio Oprandi completed his art studies in the capital city, at the Accademia Carrara, then moved to Rome after his first successes. Take part in the First World War in the corps of the Alpine troops, producing a series of Alpine views characterized by the tiny silhouettes of soldiers intent on war. From 1923 he began his travels in the African continent, where he toured various countries, staying there for a long time and making several of his works; the 1920s and 1930s are characterized by his orientalist production and by an intense participation in national and international colonial exhibitions. In 1940 he made a long journey to Albania, which he recounts through a series of valuable ethnographic portraits. Returning to his hometown, Oprandi searches for solitude and disappears from the official exhibition circuits, exhibiting only in his home-studio in Bergamo and then in Lovere: the landscape views of Lake Iseo and its surroundings are from the latter period. The proposed work, which could be part of the latter production, is presented in a contemporary frame.

Female Figure in Interior

Oil painting on canvas. Signed lower right "Morbelli". The scene is set in a poor interior: standing in a three-quarter turn, a woman, standing and framed in the dark opening of the back door, approaches a table on which there are three different flasks; the light enters from a window that can be glimpsed on the left side, under which there is a wood box. Peculiar is the play of the lines of the furniture and the rooms of the room that converge from the two sides and from the top towards the central figure, standing, dark but well defined in the contours not so much by lines, but by the play of light and shadow. The painting, of excellent hand, recalls the pictorial work of Angelo Morbelli (1853 -1919), one of the great artists of pointillism, who dedicated himself to the representation of figures and scenes of peasant and popular matrix, in the wake of realist literature. The work presented is of excellent hand, but in our opinion the attribution to Angelo Morbelli is not sustainable, but rather to an anonymous Lombard author inspired by him, and it is believed that the conformity to Morbelli's style and subjects probably led to add his signature, to recall his authorship at least of inspiration. The work is presented in a style frame.