Glimpse of The Darsena In Milan Oil on Board Italy 20th Century

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.

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.

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.

Glimpse of a snowy town

Oil on hardboard. Signed lower right. Born in 1905, Gaetano Valbusa worked for over forty years as a worker in the Brescia Mechanical Workshops, until retirement, devoting himself to painting only as a passion. Landscape painter, thanks to business trips he was able to portray "en plein air" glimpses of the whole world, even if the glimpses of the places in Brescia are the most recurring subject. Affiliated to the Brescian Artists Association, he was able to exhibit his works and make himself known by critics. In his canvases the landscapes are permeated with great serenity and tranquility, an elegy of serene memories of real life. The glimpse proposed here is presented in a frame.

Surroundings of Selva Alta Val Gardena

Oil on plywood. signed lower right, with the Roman numeral XX of the fascist calendar, corresponding to the year '42. On the back label of the Galleria Duomo, for the artist's personal exhibition in November 1942, with the title. Originally from the province of Varese, Carlo Aimetti devoted himself mainly to the landscape, painting gardens, parks, mountains, marinas and lakes with his personal technique. In particular, we remember his production dedicated to the landscapes of his native Valle Ceresio and Valle Intelvi. Contemporary frame.

Oil on canvas. The large composition of variegated and multicolored flowers is placed outdoors, above and behind a garden bench, with a wide landscape in the background: it refers to the large production of these subjects that flourished in previous centuries. The work is presented in a style frame.

Little sisters

Watercolor and pencil on paper. A drawing rich in emotional intensity although monochromatic, in shades of beige, to represent a moment of intimacy and tenderness between two little sisters, the older one cradling the little one in her arms, very maternally. 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. The drawing is presented in a frame.

The Dora in Courmayeur

Oil on plywood. Signed lower right. On the back the title. Considered one of the most poetic landscape painters of the twentieth century, the Lombard painter Ambrogio Vismara transposed his love for his native places into his works, dedicating most of his production, and evoking almost all of them in autumnal atmospheres and tones. His peculiarity was the use of the spatula instead of the brush, which allowed him to obtain an effect of tonal spots, with a sharp contrast of planes. Also this work, which reproduces a landscape not in Lombardy but in the Aosta Valley, re-proposes the warm chromatic themes of autumn, evoked by the scrub of yellow-orange trees, which divide the overhanging alpine peaks, harsh and already partially covered with snow, from the river, still alone. a stream, which flows down along a rocky shore. The work is presented in a style frame.

The Flock

Oil on hardboard. signed lower right. Painter, sculptor and architect, Carlo Bonomi, after training at the Brera Academy, opened a studio in Milan together with Carlo Carrà, Giannino Castiglioni and Barilli. His painting is characterized by bright colors - yellow, red and burnt - spread with material substance, as if he sensed a third dimension in painting. He has created works of monumental size, full of figures, seen in their everyday life: humble and industrious people, with deep religious and human motivations. He has never forgotten, on the contrary, he has rather exalted his popular extraction. The work is presented in a frame.

Val d'Aosta

Oil on plywood. signed lower right. Further signature and title on the back. Born in Como, Giulio Cisari graduated from the Brera Academy, where he was also a teacher for many years. Attracted by color, he first approached landscape painting, to then devote himself to black and white. Under the guidance of A. De Carolis, he perfected himself in all reproduction techniques, from lithography to copper engraving, finding his preferred means of expression in woodcut. He was also an illustrator. Work in frame.

Barn door in carved wood, Dogon style. The Dogon of Mali are among the oldest surviving African cultures, known throughout the world for their creation of carved wood doors, panels and shutters. These objects have various uses in their society: firstly they are made as a closure of the granaries (hence the name), secondly they are exchanged as gifts for birthdays, weddings, bring good luck. These doors are also used for rites of passage and, when used as part of the architecture, the symbols engraved on them give clues to the function of the dwelling they protect.

Gulf of Maderno

Oil painting on canvas. Signed lower left. Further signature and title on the back. Born in 1905, Gaetano Valbusa worked for over forty years as a worker in the Brescia Mechanical Workshops, until retirement, devoting himself to painting only as a passion. Thanks to his business trips, he was able to portray glimpses of the whole world "en plein air", even if the glimpses of Brescia places are the most recurring subject. Affiliated to the Associazione Artisti Bresciani, he was able to exhibit his works and make himself known by critics . In his canvases the landscapes are permeated with great serenity and tranquility, an elegy of serene memories of real life. The painting proposed here presents a glimpse of a town on Lake Garda. It is presented in a frame.