A. Gobbi Oil on Canvas Italy XX Century - Venetian glimpse

Hill Landscape with Cottage

Oil painting on canvas. Signed lower right. A glimpse of rolling hills characterized by the brilliance of the green color, in a wide range of shades enhanced by soft edges, surmounted by the blue sky and interrupted only by a cottage, which also incorporates the same colors of the earth and the countryside. It is the work of the young Milanese artist Amerigo Canegrati, who had great fame in the Thirties, and is considered among the representatives of the Lombard pictorial trends of the Italian twentieth century; his painting expresses deep coloristic qualities both in landscape paintings and in compositions and 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.

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 in vase with book

Oil on hardboard. Signed lower right. On the back there is a paper label with the data of the work. A beautiful bouquet of colorful and variegated wildflowers is arranged in a vase, in front of which an open book is placed. The painting is presented in a beautiful 1950s frame, box-like with a raised gilt edge.

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.

Winter Landscape with Sleigh

Oil on canvas. Signed lower left. A landscape where sky and earth blend in shades of white and grey, inhabited and animated only by some shaded figures with a sled pulled by a horse. The work well expresses the ability of the Russian artist Ivan Karpoff, who moved to Italy as a young man and remained there until his death, to tell a Lombard landscape, with a Slavic sensitivity, transferring typical elements of his homeland. The painting is presented in a frame.

Glimpse of the Lombard countryside

Oil painting on canvas. Signed lower right. It is the work of the artist born and lived in Milan Vespasiano Quarenghi, who distinguished himself for his glimpses of the Lombard countryside, depicted from different angles and in different seasons, with a technique that is still influenced by impressionism. In a stylish 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.

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.

Glimpse of a snowy town

Oil on hardboard. Signed lower right. Born in 1905, Gaetano Valbusa worked for over forty years as a worker in the Brescia Mechanical Workshops, until retirement, devoting himself to painting only as a passion. Landscape painter, thanks to business trips he was able to portray "en plein air" glimpses of the whole world, even if the glimpses of the places in Brescia are the most recurring subject. Affiliated to the Brescian Artists Association, he was able to exhibit his works and make himself known by critics. In his canvases the landscapes are permeated with great serenity and tranquility, an elegy of serene memories of real life. The glimpse proposed here is presented in a frame.

Little sisters

Watercolor and pencil on paper. A drawing rich in emotional intensity although monochromatic, in shades of beige, to represent a moment of intimacy and tenderness between two little sisters, the older one cradling the little one in her arms, very maternally. 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. The drawing is presented in a frame.

Val d'Aosta

Oil on plywood. signed lower right. Further signature and title on the back. Born in Como, Giulio Cisari graduated from the Brera Academy, where he was also a teacher for many years. Attracted by color, he first approached landscape painting, to then devote himself to black and white. Under the guidance of A. De Carolis, he perfected himself in all reproduction techniques, from lithography to copper engraving, finding his preferred means of expression in woodcut. He was also an illustrator. Work in frame.