Pair of Bronze Cherubs Italy XX Century - Italy Early twentieth century

Crucified Christ, 1958

Oil on hardboard. Signed and dated lower left. 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. In this work the artist proposes a half-length Christ, his eyes closed, his arms forming a whole with the pole of the cross, in continuity with it also in the color, while the background of an intense blue, although also 'it mottled with brown, creates a strong contrast. In frame.

Sant'Elpidio a Mare 1934

Oil painting on canvas. Signed lower left. Further signature, title and date on the back. Vico Viganò, a native of the province of Milan, was a painter but above all an engraver, an art in which he obtained the greatest awards. His painting is characterized by strong colors, rendered with large and material brushstrokes; he mainly created landscapes, of the places he lived. This work portrays a glimpse of a farmhouse in the countryside of Sant'Elpidio a mare, a locality in the Marche region, with animals scratching around in the farmyard. The work is presented with a stylish frame, with small shortcomings.

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.

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.

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.

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.