E. Fantuzzi Oil on Canvas Italy XX Century - Figure of Woman with Scarf

Oil on plywood. Unidentified signature lower right. A rich bouquet of pink and white roses fills a patterned, brightly colored ceramic vase that stands out against the brown background. The painting is presented in an imposing contemporary guilloché frame.

The Boutique of the Antiques dealer 1944

Oil on cardboard. Signed and dated lower right. On the back the title and further signature. This subject is unusual for Dino Rossi, a painter who devoted himself mainly to landscape painting "en plein air", drawing on the subjects from his numerous travels around the world. Of an impressionist style, he said of his painting: "Thirty percent I take my weight from reality, seventy percent I put it there", thus letting fantasy, his temperament, his nature take the lead in his works. prevailing over the data of reality. Here is proposed a glimpse of the interior, of an antique shop where the objects for sale invade every space, in a warm and welcoming disorder, in which it is the artist's gaze, rather than the correct perspective , to frame and create relationships between things.The work is presented in a frame in style.

Figure with flowers

Oil on canvas. Signed lower left. On the back further signature and dedication with declaration of authenticity. Influenced in his Parisian years by contact with Expressionism, Fantuzzi placed a marked emphasis in his works on the expression of emotions, of moods. His figures are therefore summary, never completely defined, rather deformed into elongated forms, the faces anonymous, and placed in solitary and melancholy settings; On the other hand, color dominates in his canvases in its most marked ranges, usually the cold tones of blues, greens and purples, which create sometimes violent contrasts. Fantuzzi's main themes are the loneliness of the metropolis and the difficulty of communication in interpersonal relationships, often expressed in solitary figures like the one presented here, a woman with a bunch of flowers in her hand, on a fiery red background, devoid of other figures. The work is presented in a style frame.

Oil painting on canvas. Signed in the lower right corner and on the back (Verschafeldt). Light losses of color. In coeval frame with missing parts. Early 20th century.

Textile Reproduction

Textile reproduction in silk, in two tones Made from a design by T. Strazza, as shown below on the left. The faithful reproduction of Leonardo's painting is part of a flourishing Lombard manufacturing production, which re-proposed the masterpiece in different formats. The work is exposed in a contemporary wooden frame.

Sudden Thinking, 1984

Oil on cardboard. signed top center and dated bottom right. Further signature, date and title on the back. The work belongs to the last period of the painter of Marche origins Renato Bontempi, who first trained in Luca but then lived in Milan. From the initial figurative production, Bontempi progressively moves towards an abstract painting, to which the picture proposed here belongs. In Cronice.

Costal View of Naples Bay

Oil on canvas. Signed Att. Pratella at the bottom right. On the back there is a declaretion of belonging to the neapolitan artist. The subject is close to Pratella's production who preferred marine landscapes of the Naples Bay, his home town. It is part of a wide group of painting of uncertain attribution that for a stylistic quality that does not conform to the hand of Pratella. Good qualiti and pleasant atmosphere. The painting comes with frame.

Portrait of a young lady

Oil on canvas. Signed bottom left. Francesco Ghisleni was an artist from Bergamo, who lived and worked in his hometown. His landscapes and views of his homeland are well known. This piece is the portrait of a young woman at the stables. Coeval frame.

Oil painting on canvas. Signed in the lower left corner. The woodland landscape hides a little house covered with snow. A winter red sky on the background. The painter is Giovanni Cavalleri, known as 'Il Rana'. He used to paint many pleasant mountain landscapes. The canvas has a light tear in the middle. In coeval guilloche frame. 20th century.

Female Figure with Basket of Flowers

Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. On the back there is a sales label in Hungarian. Waldek, a European artist whose life there is no news, painted mainly female figures, young and smiling, intent on domestic activities. The work is presented in a style frame

Lake Como, S. Martino di Bellagio

Oil painting on canvas. Signed lower right. On the back the title. View of Lake Como, seen from the Lecco side of the lake, in correspondence with the small church of San Martino di Lierna, a small Romanesque church located along the medieval road that descends from the village of Casate to the village of Grumo. It is the work of the Milanese artist Fortunato Zangli, who distinguished himself as a landscape painter. The work is presented in a frame lacking external strips.

Flowers

Oil on hardboard. Signed lower right. On the back there is a paper label with the data of the work. A beautiful bouquet of daisies fills a vase, placed in front of a drapery that creates a play of white and green colors. The painting is presented in a beautiful 1950s frame, box-like with a raised gilt edge.