Flap Elm Italy XX Century

Alessandria 1950s 60s

Ice bucket in silver with finely chiseled plant motifs decorations and taken in a zoomorphic shape. Under the base brand of silver and silversmith engraved. Grams 880.

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.

Face of Madonna 1942

Oil on the table. signed and dated lower right. The painting takes up the models of 15th century Tuscan painting, showing the Madonna half-length with a landscape in the background. Aldo Marzi was a Sienese artist who divided his activity between painting and teaching at the Art Institute of his city. It is known above all for having made some of the banners for the Palio di Siena. The work is presented in a style frame.

Nude of a Woman

Oil painting on canvas. Signed lower right. Istvan Mero was a Hungarian impressionist painter who trained first in Budapest, then in Paris and Munich. His pictorial production often proposes popular figurative subjects, such as this female portrait depicting a young naked woman caught between the sheets, ... reading a newspaper, losing all erotic meaning to emphasize rather a moment of domestic intimacy. Restored and relined, the painting is presented in a contemporary frame with small lacks.

Oil on canvas. The painting, made in the first half of the 1900s, takes up the landscape works in the subject and in the pictorial mode: in a landscape rich in vegetation and with peaks in the background, a young commoner asks for charity from some travelers who rest on the roadside , near a stone arch. The canvas has undergone aging and is presented in a late 19th century 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.

Carriages

Oil on the table. signed lower right. On the back the scroll of the Salvetti Art Workshop in Milan. 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 table, the Camarda offers a glimpse of the city animated by lively and colorful walking carriages. The work is presented in a style frame.

Val Gardena

Oil on plywood. Signed lower left. Further signature and title on the back. 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 recall his production dedicated to the landscapes of his native Ceresio Valley and the Intelvi Valley. The painting is presented in a contemporary frame.

Landscape with Peasant Woman

Oil on the table. signed lower right. Adolfo Tommasi, a painter from Livorno, in the wake of the "Macchialioli" established himself as a painter of nature: the humble aspects of nature, the countryside and the people who populate it were his main subjects, investigated with sensitivity for the atmospheric and luminous effects, rendered with a quick brushstroke, which builds shapes through juxtaposed colors without a contour line, albeit with attention to detail. The work is presented in a style frame.