Italy, Early XX Century

Murano chandelier in blown glass with 6 lights, Italy, early 20th century. Glass and stained glass. Small breaks.

Oil on cardboard. Signed lower right. A country path enters a snowy landscape on the slopes of mountain peaks. Ezio Pastorio, originally from Cremona but transplanted to Valseriana after his studies, is considered "a great Italian master of the 20th century, who knew how to renew the artistic language of the landscape while maintaining a strong link with 19th century painting". His production is post-impressionist in nature, especially in the large landscape production that depicts the Po and Bergamo plains, the Venetian lagoon and some Parisian glimpses, admired during some travels. In his works, Pastorio creates suggestive atmospheres using infinite ranges of colours, which harmonize and sometimes even contrast, but always presented as a transparency which annuls the static nature of the representation and with a delicacy which expresses his devout religiosity towards nature and the created. Coming from a private collection, the work is presented in a frame.

Italy, Early XX Century

Brass chandelier with 12 lights, Italy early 20th century. Decorated with gilded bronze leaf elements; glass pendants.

Oil painting on canvas. Signed lower right. On the back, this label from the "Ponte Rosso" gallery in Milan, from the "La Roggia" gallery in Palazzolo (Bs) and participation label in Clusone at the exhibition "50 years of painting by Ezio Pastorio" in 1988. On the frame, this additional title Pianura Padana, who was one of the subjects most represented by Pastorio. Here is a glimpse of the plain, with farmhouses, sparse trees and pools of water, all dominated by the snow-capped alpine peaks in the background, which blend chromatically with the sky, to create a continuum between the two parts into which it is divided landscape horizontally. Ezio Pastorio, originally from Cremona but transplanted to Valseriana after his studies, is considered "a great Italian master of the 20th century, who knew how to renew the artistic language of the landscape while maintaining a strong link with 19th century painting". His production is post-impressionist in nature, especially in the large landscape production that depicts the Po and Bergamo plains, the Venetian lagoon and some Parisian glimpses, admired during some travels. In his works, Pastorio creates suggestive atmospheres using infinite ranges of colours, which harmonize and sometimes even contrast, but always presented as a transparency which annuls the static nature of the representation and with a delicacy which expresses his devout religiosity towards nature and the created. The work, coming from a private collection, is presented in a frame.

Italy, Early XX Century

Colored Murano glass brazier chandelier, Italy, early 20th century.

Oil on cardboard. The painting presents a rugged mountain landscape, with a female figure in traditional central Italian clothing walking on the path, carrying her load on her head. The typology of landscape refers to the nineteenth-century production of "Grand Tour", which offered landscape and urban views as "souvenir postcards" for European travelers to discover the artistic beauties of Italy (and beyond). On the frame there is an attribution to Alessandro Castelli, a nineteenth-century Roman painter and engraver. The painting is presented in a frame from the early 1900s.

Embroideries on canvas, cut out and applied on a wooden panel. Probably belonging to a larger composition, then reworked to create decorative series, the chalice-shaped corolla of a flower with a long stem, filled with fruit and other flowers, with variegated colors. It is presented in a stylish frame.

Lombard Countryside

Oil painting on canvas. Signed lower right. Title and date on the back of the frame. Here we offer a glimpse of the Lombard countryside, with a plain crossed by a stream and surmounted in the distance by the snow-capped Alpine peaks. Ezio Pastorio, originally from Cremona but transplanted to Valseriana after his studies, is considered "a great Italian master of the 20th century, who knew how to renew the artistic language of the landscape while maintaining a strong link with 19th century painting". His production is post-impressionist in nature, especially in the large landscape production that depicts the Po and Bergamo plains, the Venetian lagoon and some Parisian glimpses, admired during some travels. In his works, Pastorio creates suggestive atmospheres using infinite ranges of colours, which harmonize and sometimes even contrast, but always presented as a transparency which annuls the static nature of the representation and with a delicacy which expresses his devout religiosity towards nature and the created. Coming from a private collection, the work is presented in a frame.

Wall lamp, with adjustable intensity by means of a knob in the lower part; metal frame, Murano glass.

Hanging Clouds 1993

Oil on wooden board. On the back you have the signature, the date, the title of the work and its technical characteristics. The work is well representative of the production of the Roman artist Paolo Fiorentino, whose pictorial research was always attentive to the form, buildings, architecture with particular attention to the suggestions of that produced in Italy, and beyond, between the two wars . His buildings with geometric lines and opaque or glossy surfaces stand out suspended against solid-coloured backgrounds. They are the urban elements of the collective imagination, which in Fiorentino's paintings appear real and dreamlike at the same time, if not metaphysical.

Italy, Early XX Century

Brass chandelier with 12 lights, Italy early 20th century. Glass bobeches and pendants. Breakups.

Oil painting on canvas. Signed lower right. This glimpse of the Venice lagoon is delicate in the transparency of the chromatic games, predominantly blue in all its range of shades, with anonymous boats in the foreground and Santa Maria della Salute in the background. Ezio Pastorio, originally from Cremona but transplanted to Valseriana after his studies, is considered "a great Italian master of the 20th century, who knew how to renew the artistic language of the landscape while maintaining a strong link with 19th century painting". His production is post-impressionist in nature, especially in the large landscape production that depicts the Po and Bergamo plains, the Venetian lagoon and some Parisian glimpses, admired during some travels. In his works, Pastorio creates suggestive atmospheres using infinite ranges of colours, which harmonize and sometimes even contrast, but always presented as a transparency which annuls the static nature of the representation and with a delicacy which expresses his devout religiosity towards nature and the created. The work, coming from a private collection, is presented in a coeval frame.