Flower Arrangement in Glass Vase Oil on Canvas Italy '900

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.

Oil on canvas. Unidentified signature and date lower right. Sacred image of ancient taste, presents Mary and the Baby Jesus intent on competing for a small breastplate: it seems that Mary tries to remove it from the hands of the little Jesus, who sulkily holds it back. It is a scene of domestic intimacy, of a very earthly mother-child relationship, so much so that the two figures do not even have a halo. In a coeval frame.

Still Life 1946

Oil painting on canvas. Signed and dated in the lower right corner. Additional signature, date and title on the back; also present stamps of the Russian art gallery. Composition of bottles and goblets, which stand out against a two-tone background, with warm yet opaque colors. Born and artistically trained in Florence, Ugo Vittore Bartolini moved to Milan in 1934, or having obtained the chair of drawn figure at the Art School of the Brera Academy. In the following years he participated in numerous national reviews and exhibitions, including several times at the Venice Biennale. If starting from the thirties he established himself above all as a landscape painter, from the second post-war period Bartolini decidedly approached sacred subjects, but he also created series of female nudes and still lifes. His style is simple and communicative, his paintings have a warm and refined chromatism. The work is presented in a style 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.

Landscape with Sheaf

Oil on the table. Signed G. Zocchi lower right. It is probably a late work by the Florentine painter Guglielmo Zocchi, best known for the lively genre scenes of Greco-Roman setting, which earned him great success especially abroad. Landscape production is rare. The painting is presented in a coeval frame with shortcomings.

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.

Still Life with Vase and Violin

Oil on hardboard. Signed top right. Born in Milan in 1913, and trained at the Brera Academy (of which he later became 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. In this still life, a ceramic flower vase painted with eighteenth-century figures is composed on a plane together with a violin, books and a letter; in the background a heavy curtain. Although the subjects and the composition are of an ancient taste, the colors are definitely lively and modern. The work is presented in a style frame.

Composition with Microscope and Butterflies

Oil painting on canvas. Signed lower right. Born in Milan in 1913 and trained at the Brera Academy (of which he later became 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 presents a collection of butterflies and insects together with a microscope and accessories for observation, accompanied by a quartz and a dry branch. Lively colors, less explicit the reference to Flemish painting of previous centuries, compared to other works by Gajoni. In frame.

'Le Piante as dan la Buna' 1962

Oil on cardboard. On the back there is a label with the name of the artist, the date and the title. Belonging to a family of Piedmontese painters, Sandro Vacchetti was an eclectic artist, who experimented not only in painting but also as an illustrator, set designer and above all as a ceramist. Sandro Vacchetti's pictorial production can easily be divided into two main thematic groups: that of portraits, whose stylistic language is similar to that used by the artist for his ceramic creations, and that of landscapes, which mostly portray places familiar to the teacher, linked to childhood memories: places of the soul, filtered through the emotions that make them even more intimate. The small landscape view proposed here belongs to this second group. In frame.

Venice, Glimpse of the Lagoon

Watercolor on cardboard. Signed lower left. Evocative glimpse of the Venetian lagoon, with fishing boats in the foreground and the city skyline in the background. Natale Gavagnin, born in Venice and trained at the Venetian Academy, devoted himself mainly to the landscape, and above all to that of his city and the lagoon. He exhibited mainly at the exhibitions in Venice and Milan. The painting is presented in a stylish frame. The watercolor is in good condition, with gores of humidity on the passepartout.