Pair of Appliques Metal Glass Italy XX C

Valligiano landscape with flock

Oil painting on canvas. Signed lower right. Beautiful work of the Bergamo author Giuseppe Gaudenzi, who after training at the Carrara Academy, established himself as a landscape painter, preferring glimpses of his city, even if his heterogeneous production also includes historical subjects, genres and numerous portraits. Restored and relined, the painting is presented in a frame

Madonna and Child with Adoring Women

Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. Born in Milan and trained at the Brera Academy, Giuseppe Ghiringhelli exhibited for the first time in 1900 at the Milan Triennale, and subsequently participated in numerous national exhibitions. He devoted himself mainly to landscape and portraits, but in his production there are also several representations of the sacred maternity, depicted with intense luministic effects. An example of this is the work proposed here, a true celebration of Motherhood understood as a central element of life: around Mary and the Child, facing forward to look at the world, other women gather, looking adoringly at the two central figures. , bringing free flowers. The work has a slight tear. It is presented in a contemporary frame.

Oil on canvas. Eastern European School. Signed Szego G. below. These are two works to be proposed aligned because they depict a boy and a girl lying on the same lawn in a mirrored position, as if facing each other, probably intent on a love game: they wear gypsy clothes and have musical instruments with them - she a tambourine and him a violin - which refer to two characters of Slavic ethnicity, from the gypsy world. The whole is lively and serene. The two works are presented in styled frames.

St. Martino donating his cape

Pencil on paper. Signed at the bottom right. Drawing of a pavese painter whose production, after a short modernist period, was close to a traditional lombard post-impressionist at the turn of the two centuries. The main themes were views of Pavia and glimpses od Ticino represented with fast and vibrand brushings and with 19th century angles. He also received several public commissions for the decoration of numerous monuments and buildings of the city of Pavia, in which he frescoed historical and mythological scenes. The design here proposed tells the most well-known episode of the life of St Martin, the young soldier of the Roman imperial army who cut in two his cloak to make a gift to a poor beggar, and who later converted to Christianity. The design is presented in the frame.

River Glimpse with Figures

Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. Born in Treviso but moved with his family to Milan from an early age, Lucio Cargnel inherited his passion for painting and music from his father Vittore Antonio. As for his father, in Lucio Cargnel's painting an important role is played by the study of light, but associated with the search for a highly scenographic image, with lights and shadows that chase each other among the architectures, expressed through soft, nuanced colors. Among his works are renowned landscapes and glimpses of cities, even imaginary ones, as well as streets, squares and canals; the places of his choice are Milan, Venice and the Ligurian Riviera. The work is presented in a style frame.

Oil painting on canvas. Unidentified signature lower right. Glimpse of the mountain top, which refers to the Dolomite massifs for the sharp rocks that distinguish them.

Still Life 1987

Natural wood inlay. Signed lower right. on the back this certificate of authenticity of the work signed by the artist, with the data of the work (technique, title and date of realization). It is a work carried out with the "knife" technique by the well-known master of Anagni (FR) Carlo Turri: combining the Renaissance style with the taste and creativity of high contemporary craftsmanship, he has created his works entirely by hand, using techniques of the fifteenth century and paying particular attention to chromatic research and three-dimensionality. Its tradition has been continued by his daughter Rita who, in the Anagni laboratory, applies classical and modern ornamental motifs not only on paintings but also on boiserie, furnishing and design elements. The work is inserted in the frame.

Landscape with Figures and Architecture

Oil on cardboard. Signed lower right. Born in Treviso but moved with his family to Milan from an early age, Lucio Cargnel inherited his passion for painting and music from his father Vittore Antonio. As for his father, in Lucio Cargnel's painting an important role is played by the study of light, but associated with the search for a highly scenographic image, with lights and shadows that chase each other among the architectures, expressed through soft, nuanced colors. Among his works are renowned landscapes and glimpses of cities, even imaginary ones, as well as streets, squares and canals; the places of his choice are Milan, Venice and the Ligurian Riviera. In frame.

London's Harbour

Watercolor on cardboard. Signature and title lower left. Gino Scalatelli, an artist active at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, specialized in glimpses of Italian and European cities (Paris, Venice, and others), but above all of the English capital, London, which he mainly created in watercolor, a technique he favorite. The painting is presented in a contemporary frame.

Venetian glimpse

Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. Painter, sculptor and ceramist, the Turin artist Giovanni Riva participated in numerous national reviews and exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale in 1940 and 1942. Among his production as a ceramist, the faces of many Lenci dolls are particularly remembered. In painting he devoted himself above all to glimpses of Turin, Milan and Venice, rendered with great spontaneity and immediacy, as well as genre scenes. The systematic study of ancient art, the adherence to the Renaissance ideals of the sculpture of Donatello, Michelangelo and Giambologna pushed Giovanni Riva towards the adoption of an expressive code similar to the taste of the romantic nineteenth century, rather than to futurist dynamism or surrealist visions . The Venetian glimpse proposed here is presented in a style frame.

Female portrait 1950

Oil on canvas. Signed and dated (1-5-1950) in the lower left corner. Born in Bologna but artistically trained at the Brera Academy in Milan, in the early 1900s he studied in Paris, where he can admire the painting of the great masters of the past and follow with great interest the new pictorial trends that advance in the climate of general renewal brought by the new century. In fact, influences of themes such as symbolism and divisionism can be found in his paintings of the first decades of the twentieth century, but Mascarini chooses not to let himself go by the new currents that acclaim the deconstruction of form, remaining in the enclosure of his studio to paint the affections and gazes. of everyday life closest to him. His figurative language draws on the Lombard naturalism of the late nineteenth century, his painting is framed in a sober and balanced drawing. Landscape and portrait painter, he proposes delicate and placid scenarios, such as the glaciers he paints as he climbs in the silence of the high mountains that he loves very much, and portraits with faces harmoniously framed by soft brushstrokes, which express intimate feelings. The portrait of a lady presented here proposes a figure who, although elegant in her evening outfit, expresses serenity, calmness, intimacy rather than worldliness in her face and pose. The work is presented in a contemporary frame.

Composition with Hourglass Armor and Books

Oil on the table. Signed lower right. Born in Milan in 1913 and trained at the Brera Academy (of which he will later become a teacher), Adriano Gajoni became passionate about the study of seventeenth-century Lombard painters and Dutch and Flemish painting of the seventeenth century, from whose meticulous realism he let himself be inspired. Of strict figurative observance, Gajoni preferred landscapes, portraits and above all still lifes, which he expressed in fairy-tale and allegorical compositions. He mainly practiced oil painting on wood and hardboard. This composition proposes an armor, placed on a table together with some illuminated texts and an hourglass. The taste for ancient flavor compositions is rediscovered. In frame.