Flap Neoclassical Style Walnut Italy XX Century - Italy 20th Century

Beach work scene

Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. The imposing scene describes the undertaking of hauling a boat ashore with a horse-drawn trailer: the six mighty beasts are the protagonists, located in pairs on different floors, while some fishermen arrange the tow ropes; sea, sky and beach are placed on three parallel lines, which also fade chromatically into each other; perpendicular to these lines, the flagpole of the boat, which creates the union between the three elements. Edgar Pierre Jozef Farasyn (his name also appears as "Edgard Farasyn" and "Edgard Farasijn".) Belgian artist trained in Antwerp where he then worked, he was a painter, watercolorist, engraver, graphic designer. I He initially painted scenes for children, but from 1885 he switched to painting in the open air, painting many city scenes and in the old fish market of Antwerp, but also many rural landscapes and views of the villages. Attracted by the sea, he stayed there regularly, creating many realistic scenes from the life of fishermen and their families. His early works were characterized by a realistic style, with rather gray and gloomy colors, and with a rigorous atmosphere. Later he moved on to a brighter use of color and a subtle representation of light. Due to its large size (unusual for the artist), the work presented here suggests a work for an important client. It is presented in a rich golden frame from the early 1900s.

Little Girl

Oil on the table. On the back there are traces of the signature and two labels from Art galleries, the Bottega d'arte of Livorno and the Galleria Manzoni of Milan, bearing the name of the author, the title and the technical data of the work. Livornese by birth, Ludovico Tommasi was trained near the Macchiaioli current, developing a strong sensitivity for color, which led him to create realist works pervaded by harmonious chromatisms. The work is presented in a stylish frame.

Park

Watercolor on paper. Signed lower right. On the back there is a label from the Manzoni Art Gallery in Milan, with the data of the work. A leading exponent of 19th-century Lombard painting which was always linked to the love for the real, Pompeo Mariani was also called "the Italian impressionist", due to the influence in his works of French impressionism and those experiences, not only cultural, which constituted the era of the Belle Époque, which the artist lived between Milan, Bordighera, Nice and Montecarlo. In this small watercolor Mariani offers a glimpse of a city park, adorned with statues along the gate. The painting is presented in a period frame.

Italy XX Century

Wedding cup in blown Murano glass, decorated in gold and polychrome all over. The Barovier cup, a masterpiece of Renaissance glass art, was created in 1460 by Maestro Angelo Barovier as a wedding gift (it is, in fact, a wedding cup) and is still reproduced today following the same methods as 500 years ago: a composed of glass paste (chalcedony), hand painted blue and gold colored glass. There are paintings of the couple, a horse ride and the fountain of youth. The original is located in the Murano Glass Museum.

Bagpipe player

Oil on cardboard applied to canvas. Signed lower right. Tito Pellicciotti, originally from Abruzzo, was trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples under the guidance of Filippo Palizzi, from whom he derived his attention to animal figures, which he reproduced both in the calm of the stable and free and grazing. He also paid attention to the rural world of his land by representing rustic and stable interiors, peasants and shepherdesses, as well as tavern interiors animated by popular figures and "en plein aire" glimpses of the street with onion sellers, itinerant musicians and umbrella sellers with pipes fumigants; and still pastoral caravans, hunting scenes and some delicate maternities. This little picture fits well into Pellicciotti's typical production: inside a tavern a bagpiper player is performing, accompanied by his little son on the zufolo. The work is presented in a period frame.

20th Century / 1901 - 2000

engraved brass hanging storaged in a framed with glass from the Horn of Africa.

Female Portrait

Oil on canvas. Signed at the bottom right. Portrait of a young woman in a black evening dress, enlivened by the large flowered shawl she wears draped over one shoulder. The work of the Romagna artist Alberto Salietti. Although he spent almost all his artistic career in Milan and Liguria, Alberto Salietti - painter, engraver, mosaicist and fresco painter - remained a point of reference for painters from Romagna, especially between the two wars. After moving with his family to Milan, Salietti attended the Brera Academy of Fine Arts until 1914. After the Venice Biennial in 1924, he joined the Novecento movement and became its secretary in 1925. In 1926 he exhibited at the "First exhibition of the Novecento italiano" and in 1927 was one of the founders of the "Group of seven modern painters" together with Funi, Sironi, Tosi, Carrà, Marussig and Bernasconi. As a portraitist and landscape painter, Salietti - who patiently drew on post-impressionist, secessionist and Novecentista influences - made an original contribution to Italian art between the two wars, distinguishing himself by his joyful and optimistic adherence to reality. The painting comes in a frame.

Duel scene 1915

Oil on the table. Signed lower left. Further signature and date on the back. Riccardo Pellegrini, a Milanese painter, was a pupil of Domenico Morelli and trained in the climate of Romanticism. He was a landscape painter and genre painter, but he also created valuable still lifes, with bright colors and precise and realistic design. His landscape production drew on the various places he visited and lived in, in Italy and abroad, especially in Spain and France. In this work Pellegrini proposes a genre scene, a duel at dawn outside the walls of a garden, a rather typical theme of the romantic genre, especially literary. The dynamic figures of the duelists, engaged in the violent and bloody act of the duel, assisted by the godparents, contrast with the quiet of the garden and the delicacy of the flowering bushes. The plays of light and shadow play well, prolonging the shapes of the figures and the vegetation, already with meager outlines. The work is presented in a coeval frame.

Italy, XX Century

Precision balance in chromed metal in display case. Opening front and drawer at the base.

Italy, 1960s

Majolica ceramic parade plate with polylobed edge. Along the brim decorated with hearts and plant motifs, in the cavetto basket with fruit. On the back brand of the manufacturer.

Oil painting on canvas. A country road, bordered by houses on one side, by a row of trees on the other, and figures of shepherds in the foreground who converse: the atmosphere of the painting is serene and tranquil, reinforced by the blue sky above. Restored and relined, the painting is presented in a coeval frame.