Riding Soldier bronze sculpture 19th-20th century

Oil on cardboard, applied on wood. Signed lower right Previati. The young woman portrayed is shown from behind, with her head turned sideways, staring into the distance; she wears an older style dress, which leaves the shoulders uncovered, and on her head a crown of roses intertwined with ribbons, which stand out chromatically recalling the white and pink colors of the young woman's complexion. The painting is presented in a frame from the early 1900s, adapted.

Egg seller

Oil on hardboard. Signed lower right. On the back, further authenticated signature, with the title and location of the artist's studio. The affable and wrinkled face of an old farmer is portrayed, offering his eggs with a simple and dignified gesture. Campestrini, born and lived in Milan where he also taught at the Brera Academy, distinguished himself above all as a painter of figures, preferring to portray the faces of villagers, villagers, fishermen. He also created landscapes, alpine or of the Ligurian countryside, as well as views of Milan. Although he had been a pupil of Bignami, he remained far from the clamor of the avant-gardes. He himself liked to define himself as a "figurist painter who devotes himself in particular to the mountain subject, to the religious one and other landscape themes". The work is presented in a style frame.

Oil on canvas. Signed Anibal and dated 1849 in the lower left corner. The scene offers the glimpse of a river landscape, with the wide and peaceful watercourse flowing in the middle of a green countryside and near a small village, and animated by numerous figures of fishermen and laundresses intent on daily occupations. The painting has a slight tear on the left and a sign of previous repair on the right. It is presented in a coeval redorated frame.

Vase with Flowers, 1957

Oil on the table. Signed and dated lower left. It is the work of the Milanese painter Piero Gauli, who joined the current group, creating a painting characterized by a strongly expressionist style, full of colors and rich in reds of Venetian ancestry, who digs the material like a hard-working sculptor. The painting is presented with a brass profile, inserted in a contemporary wooden frame.

Watercolor on paper. Signed Borrani and dated 1881 in the lower left corner. Meticulous and detailed glimpse of a Gothic church interior, in particular the pulpit decorated with panels carved in bas-relief with scenes from the Passion; in the background, the bright and colorful mosaic windows. Despite the signature, it is not attributable to the Tuscan painter Odoardo Borrani, a talented Macchiaiolo. The painting is presented in a styled frame.

Oil painting on canvas. A large landscape of hilly countryside, with the river flowing to the left, sees some small popular figures on the path to the right, travelers in conversation. The painting has undergone color cleaning. It is presented in a contemporary frame.

Colored boats, Porticello, 1929

Oil on the table. On the back, a title block with the author's signature, title, location and date. Born in Sicily in 1882, but artistically trained in the USA where he had moved while still a child with his family, Guarino was a painter and engraver, who painted the places of his life with large brushstrokes and bold colors. The work is presented in a contemporary frame.

Original silk curtain applied on a wooden frame. The large painting served as a decorative pictorial element; inside a gilded frame painted with swirls and curls, on a green background, a composition of flowers and leaves is painted, starting from the vase at the bottom center in continuity with the decorations of the frame. The canvas has a small tear at the bottom left.

Portrait of a child

Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. Palermitan painter, Francesco Camarda distinguished himself for figure painting, dedicated to portraits and the nude, and above all for animalist painting, in the wake of the realist production of the Palizzi brothers. He was able to express a painting with a lively and fresh color. In this small canvas is proposed the portrait of a child sitting on a chair, hooded to frame the plump and smiling face, the direct gaze, the plump little hands resting on the knees in a proud and resolute pose. The work is presented in a contemporary frame.

Women in prayer

Engraving, monotype. Bottom in pencil, on the right the signature, on the left the title. The Venetian artist Tullio Silvestri constantly expressed in his production the modules of late nineteenth-century lagoon painting, with its symbolist implications, characterized by a loose and rapid sign, in "direct action". He created many monotypes, of which he was a skilled performer. He loved depicting moments of the country's life, facts and popular figures; he painted processions, glimpses, tavern figures, buskers, portrayed ironers, peasant women, lacemakers, card players and, as in the monotype proposed here, women in prayer. The work is presented in a frame.

Male Portrait in Profile

Oil on cardboard. signed lower right, with a dedication "to friend G. Rutelli". Of humble origins, Angelo Dall'Oca Bianca, even once he became an established and appreciated artist, frequenting the Italian and international artistic-cultural environment, always maintained the bond with his city, a continuous source of inspiration for his artistic production, and for its poor; in 1939 he built the Dall'Oca Village in Verona, for the benefit of the poor of the city, and in 1941 he made a will, leaving all his money and his paintings to the city of Verona for charitable works. His painting was always of a purely realist mold, influenced above all by his contact with Giacomo Favretto who allowed him to enrich his painting technique with bright colors and a large and vaporous style, and by the use of photography as a memory for the representation of truth. . The work, a portrait of a male figure seen in profile, is lively in the colors. It is presented in a stylish frame.

Landscape with Houses 1875

Oil on the table. Signed and dated lower right. Further signature and date on the back. Artist from the province of Pisa, trained first at the Academy of his city and later at that of Florence, thanks to contacts with Telemaco Signorini and Giovanni Fattori, Francesco Gioli landed on painting from life with a rural subject, creating works - such as the one presented here - which constitute the expression of Tuscan Naturalism, in which he managed to convey the nostalgia of the past and the discomfort with the advance of progress. At the beginning of the twentieth century he oriented his production on Florentine views, giving particular emphasis to the atmospheric and luministic rendering in an impressionist sense. The work is presented in a contemporary frame.