Pocket Watch Silver Switzerland 1920s-1930s - Switzerland 1920s 30s

Coastal Landscape

Oil painting on canvas. Signed lower right. A highly original landscape painter who tried his hand at oil painting but also at watercolor and engraving, Raul Viviani came very close to pointillist painting, however developing his own personal technique, characterized by very thin filaments of color in the shape of thin commas, which define the structures of its landscapes. With his move to Liguria, which made the landscape of this region the protagonist of his works, his technique changed, moving away from the original divisionism to open up to a broad and summary brushstroke, which finally led in the last period to a production of nature death with violent and contrasting colors. This painting can also probably be traced back to the Ligurian period, given the subject, although without a title to locate the view. The work is presented in a frame.

Oil painting on canvas. Signed A. Basile lower left. Lively genre scene set in the workshop of a cobbler, depicted in the foreground intent on his work. The bright colors, the warm brightness, the serenity expressed by the man's face make the scene pleasant. There is no biographical information on this artist, but other paintings similar in subject are known by the same artist (cobblers, elderly fishermen or woodcutters smoking a pipe at rest). In frame.

Mixed media on paper. Signed and dated lower right.

Along The Sesia 1970

Oil on canvas. Signed at the bottom right. On the back there is the title with date. Giuseppe Ajmone was an artist from Valsesia that studied at the Brera Academy in Milan; he was one of the signatories of the Manifesto of Realism in1946. Ajmone preferred to paint still lifes and landscaped but he was also very fasinated by the nudes that had characterize most of his pictorical production from the 1960s untill now. The landscape in question shows a suggestive glimpse of Sesia. The painting comes with 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.

Oil on canvas. Singed S. Ronzoni at the bottom right. The artist painted a view over the harbour with small boats moored at the quay and sailors loading goods on their shoulders. The pictorial strokes are broad and uncontoured, the colours in a few ranges fading into each other to create a suspended atmosphere. The painting is presented in a stylish frame, with some faults.

Impression Ligurian Rivarolo pine forest

Watercolor on paper applied to the table. Unidentified signature lower left. On the back a dedication with further signature, the title and date of the work. Country view of the small hamlet of Genoa, with a shepherdess and her goats in the middle of the meadow. In a contemporary frame.

Oil painting on canvas. Italian school of the early 1900s. The large scene is set in a desolate landscape completely covered in snow: on the left in the foreground, behind a group of carts and mobile homes (probably a gypsy camp) a woman cries while peeking out from behind a cloth; observe the figures moving away from the center of the scene, only silhouettes but clearly definable: two gendarmes flank a man in plain clothes, evidently under arrest. A street lamp and some dry and bare trees occupy the space on the right. The whole scene, painted with broad brushstrokes and without contours, is dominated by the greyish-white shades of the snow, the gray sky, the indistinct peaks in the background, or rather all the naturalistic elements, including one of the two horses tied to rest, while the other elements, the figures, the house, the street lamps, the other horse, and also the footprints on the snow that trace the path of the three figures in the distance, are characterized by brown and ocher colours, rather dull: the whole underlines the drama of the scene, perhaps also the desperation and sense of loneliness and abandonment of the woman. Restored and relined, the painting is not signed on the front (possible signature on the back covered by the relining?). The painting is presented in a period frame.

The Old Milan

Oil painting on canvas. Signed lower right. On the back of the frame there is a label with the title. Self-taught Milanese artist, Giovan Francesco Gonzaga declared "my true teacher is Nature", and faithful to her, he dedicated himself mainly to scenes with horses (a passion inherited from his experience in the Savoy Cavalry during the war) to landscapes and still lifes , always depicted ";en plein air". Vittorio Sgarbi wrote about him: "The wisdom of Giovan Francesco Gonzaga lies in the drawing, which is strong and decisive..... The images vibrate with restlessness, in the sign of man's struggle against himself, in the hell of a a story that always seems to repeat the same drama. But if the preparatory drawing is admirable, this artist's color has a royalty and sensitivity that come from a musical perception of color, where the palette is expressed in sudden changes and rhythms buttons". In this work Gonzaga offers a glimpse of his Milan, where a ray of sunlight illuminates the facade of a building making it emerge from the shadows of the narrow street that branches off at the corner. The work is presented in a period frame.

Roman Landscape

Oil painting on canvas. signed lower left. Further signature and title on the back. Born and lived in Rome, Sdruscia was an interpreter of the so-called Roman School, mainly creating glimpses of his city, in a pictorial style that looks to the great masters of the period, such as Guidi and De Pisis. The work is presented in a frame.

Woman at the Spinning Wheel

Tempera on paper. Signed lower left. Probably a sketch, due to the rapid drafting and unfinished contours, this work presents a young woman sitting spinning at a spinning wheel. The artist Gino Simonetti, painter but also writer, born in the Piacenza area, lived and worked mainly in Turin. the work is presented in a period frame.

Oil painting on canvas. Signed lower left. Inside a rural kitchen, a peasant family allows themselves a moment of celebration: the father plays the mandolin, listened to by the little girl who seems to want to dance, assisted by her mother, and by the other women of the house, smiling as they carry out their domestic tasks. The production of the Neapolitan painter Giuseppe Giardiello always looked to the folklore of Neapolitan rural and peasant life, painting, with intimate and delicate tones, both scenes of domestic life and landscape views animated by figures. The work is presented in a contemporary frame.