Contemporary Painting U. Bartolini 1965 Female Nude Oil on Cardboard - Female Nude, 1965

Still life

Oil on the table. Signed upper right. An extremely original landscape painter who experimented with oil painting but also with watercolors 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 his landscapes. With his transfer to Liguria, which made the landscape of that 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 resulted in the last period in a production of nature death with violent and contrasting colors. This still life, a composition of vegetables and a vividly colored bottle, can be placed in this period. The work is presented in a frame.

Venetian Glimpse With Masked Figures

oil on plywood. Signed at the bottom right. View of a bridge that crosses a canal in the middle of the woods; above the bridge there are masked figures, below is a gondola. Born into a family of artists and artistically trained in Venice, Paoletti later moved to Milan, where he continued his career, devoting himself not only to painting but also to illustrating magazines. The Venetian theme remained a recurring theme in his painting: maintaining the link with Venetian vedutista painting of the late 19th century, Paoletti translated the views of his city into forms of colour and lights. Coeval frame.

Venetian Glimpse With Masks

Oil on plywood. Signed at the bottom right. Glimpse of a venetian house with access to the canal near which there is a gondola; two figures of venetian masks are gettin inside the house. Paoletti was born and trained in Venice by a family of artists and later moved to Milan where he dedicated himself to painting and illustration. The theme of Venice also remained recurrent in his pictorial production: maintaining the link with the Venetian vedutista painting of the late '800, Paoletti translates into forms of color and light the views of his city. The painting comes in a coeval frame.

Still Life With Apples 1932

OIl on plywood. Signature and date at the top right. The composition shows some apples spread on the table with other elements: a plate, a jug and the glass, the chalice, some jars. The Tuscan artist Luigi Bini was a painter, ceramist and sculptor, who did not feel bound by traditional techniques but liked to experiment with new ones. His paintings, which include portraits and figure studies, were mainly done in pastel and tempera in order to achieve lively and soft chromatic transitions through broad brush strokes. The painting comes in a contemporary frame.

Landscape with Shepherd and Flock

Oil on cardboard. Signed lower left. The Milanese artist Carlo Balestrini preferred two subjects in his impressionist production: views of Milan and its popular suburbs, and horses, depicted both in the countryside and in city parks. In this work, on the other hand, he offers a glimpse of the countryside in which a stream flows from which a flock is drinking. The work is presented in a contemporary frame.

Portrait of a young commoner

Oil on canvas applied to the table. Signed lower right. Antonio Vallone, a Neapolitan painter close to Morelli's school, specialized in genre portraits, above all of smiling young men and women, street urchins or peasant women typical of his homeland. The work is presented in a period frame.

Portrait of a Street Boy

Oil on canvas applied to the table. Signed lower right. Antonio Vallone, a Neapolitan painter close to Morelli's school, specialized in genre portraits, above all of smiling young men and women, street urchins or peasant women typical of his homeland. The work is presented in a period frame.

Mixed technique on colored cardboard. These are advertising drawings made for the Hobby soft drink, a soft drink on the market in the 60s and 70s, in different variants highlighted by the different colors of the labels. The drawings, made by hand, were intended for the training of wholesale sellers of the drink, proposing in an ironic and amusing way behavioral advice in the proposal to retail traders; three of them present the different markets where to propose the product, the traditional one, the industrial one, and the youth market which "forms the Hobby consumers of the future".

Road to Cervasca 1981

Oil on hardboard. Signed lower right. Further signature, date and title on the back. Giovanni Balansino, Piedmontese by origin but Lombard by adoption, chose to depict his love for both lands with his painting made of broad and nervous brushstrokes, dedicating a large part of his production to them. In the proposed painting, Giovanni Balansino presents a glimpse of a country road near a village that he identifies in Cervasca, a small mountain town in the Cuneo area, animated by two barely sketched figurines that blend into the natural environment, due to the overlapping of the applied colors with rapid brush strokes and undefined contours. The work is presented in a frame.

Pulcinella Holidays 1981

Oil (mixed) on canvas. Signed and dated lower right. On the back another signature, the title, the technique, and an autographed dedication by the artist to a friend. Mario Cortiello, a Neapolitan painter who was a pupil of Gennaro Villani and later a friend and collaborator of Umberto Lilloni, participated with his own personal style in the renewal of Neapolitan painting, without straying from tradition. Endowed with fertile invention and remarkable representative capacity, he left behind a rich and varied production. Landscape or urban views are recurring in his production, populated by numerous figures, often, in the Neapolitan setting, by Pulcinella, depicted floating on dreamlike backgrounds, so much so that he is defined as the Neapolitan Chagall. In this work Cortiello represents the holidays of the Neapolitan mask as a playful moment in the company of the ever-present naked women. The work is presented in a frame.

Copy from the Beato Angelico

Mixed technique on plywood. It is a copy of a famous painting by Beato Angelico (1395 -1455), who repeatedly proposed this subject in different variations, and with different techniques and dimensions. In this case in particular, the copy is inspired by the large fresco known as the "Annunciation on the first floor", painted by Beato Angelico between 1425 and 1426 for the Convent of San Marco in Florence (located on the first floor of the building). . The table needs cleaning. It is presented in a frame. it features the diagonal arrangement of the figures of the Archangel Gabriel and Mary and a solidly geometric space. Fra Angelico, Annunciation, 1425 – 1426, fresco, 230 x 321 cm. Florence, Convent of San Marco

Still Life with Game and Vegetables

Oil painting on canvas. Signed lower right. The composition sees two hunted pheasants lying on the table near the cauldron and surrounded by vegetables. Czech artist Frantisek Zikmund loved to paint still lifes or landscapes in rich colors. The painting is presented in a mid-1900s frame.