Contemporary Painting by G.F. Gonzaga The Old Milan Oil on Canvas - The Old Milan

Female Face 1995

Terracotta sculpture. Signature and date engraved on the back of the neck. The sculpted female face is probably that of the well-known art critic Rossana Bossaglia. Achille Guzzardella, a Milanese sculptor-painter, is particularly renowned for his sculptural portraits of well-known personalities of the Italian art world. Among others, that of Vittorio Sgarbi, who described him as 'the fighter of clay' and also 'Achille who paints with the soul...'. Eclectic and refined, dreamlike in his oil painting and always close to man in his sculptural work, Guzzardella fascinates art lovers with his concreteness expressed through his personal formal research.

House of Mary in Guerri 1957

Oil on hardboard. Signed and dated lower right. On the back the title. Caminati was a Genoese artist who loved to experiment, passing from social realism of denunciation (he was a partisan of the Second World War), to a painting close to pop-art, to then return to hyper-realism. This work belongs to the period of social realism, which lasted throughout the fifties, in which Caminati portrayed places and characters of everyday life, such as this landscape view of the Casa Guerri hamlet in the municipality of Pievepelago, in the province of Modena, where the protagonist is a specific house, belonging to a woman called Mary, evidently known to the painter. The work is presented in a frame

The Seeding 1979

Oil on glass. Signed and dated lower right, with the symbol of the artist, the stylized figure of a man in a wheelchair. On the back label with further signature and data of the work. The naive style painting proposes a moment of peasant life, or rather the sowing of the small field; the farmer works in the small plot of land, almost a vegetable garden, with the hens pecking around him, and green hills all around, illuminated by a huge, sparkling sun. It is a work on glass by the painter Mario Previ, who has been living and painting in a wheelchair since the age of eighteen, due to a tetraplegia resulting from a dip in his Taro. He said of himself : "The world, the passage of time, from this point of view (the wheelchair) teach many things. You learn to wake up every morning with a purpose, even if your body is in pain, if every gesture generates suffering and depend on others and giving up could be an easy solution. And instead, art, painting, together with the serenity of my world, of friends, give me incredible energy. They saved me, giving me the strength to live" . In 1974, three years after the accident, inspired by a television broadcast on Yugoslav naive painters, in particular by the works on glass of Mijo Kovacic, Previ began to paint and to learn the art of self-taught painting on glass, up to to be known and appreciated for his paintings. In his naif Mario Previ tells a reality that has almost disappeared, real stories even if in a fairytale tone, he revives lost traditions, slices of life that belonged to other generations, those of peasant civilization (from which, however, he comes), but what most emerges from his visions are the "forë", those that could once be heard in the "firossi" the traditional evenings of the hamlets of Parma dedicated to getting together to tell anecdotes, stories and historical curiosities, often in front of the fire in the fireplace, when outside it was cold and snowing. The work is presented in a frame.

Mixed technique on canvas. Signed lower right. The painting of Kodra, an Albanian painter trained artistically in Italy and active in the Milanese context, consists of a personal interpretation, of a fantastic kind, of Cubism, with the peculiarity that the decompositions typical of analytical cubism are proposed according to an approach of its own more than synthetic cubism. The seascape depicted here, with sailboats sailing close to a coast, is part of the later production, in which the native country is often evoked.

Bas-relief sculpture, with metal wires, aluminum globe and lamp holder mounted in the shape of a butterfly on a glossy black plastic panel. On the back label of Studio EF, TOp model, Made in Italy.

Mixed technique bas-relief on chipboard. Abstract composition, with the date 1975 in the lower left. On the back the title, the date, and the declaration of revision of the same, with dedication and signature of the artist Stefano Colombo.

Female Figures

Charcoal on paper. Signed and dated below. The dates correspond to the years 1945, 1947 and 1950. Four female figures are drawn, different in pose and somatic characteristics. Aldo Salvadori was a painter, but also an illustrator and Milanese art teacher. The female figure recurs throughout her artistic production, however always marked by figurative subjects. The designs are in frames in style.

Print on paper. Rare anti-racist poster which, as indicated below, was published as a supplement to the magazine "MAI" of June '68, in the series "I manifesti di MAI di Giò" (Giorgio Tavaglione). It is a manifesto of the beat movements that spread in Italy in the years 1967-1968: thanks to the use of the mimeograph, which allowed the printing of numerous flyers, posters, poetic anthologies, small plaquettes and especially magazines, the young beatniks they created an alternative information channel that represented the primary vehicle for disseminating the principles that animated the beat movement, as opposed to the official cultural and communication circuits. Within the magazines, and in general in the various beat activities, poetic writing assumed an essential role as an integral part of the practice of dissent, since it represented one of the main forms of expression and affirmation of a different ideal of life, as well as of a different idea of collectivity. Giorgio Tavaglione was one of the best-known artistic exponents of the beat movement: as a complete self-taught Giò he designed the posters, flyers and covers of the first Italian underground magazines of the 1960s; disappeared for years after a trip to India, he subsequently reappeared as a draftsman of tarot cards and talismans in the creation of which he transferred his excellent graphic quality, his typical meticulous and imaginative, esoteric and visionary style. Work in frame.

Pair of Ink Drawings

Ink on paper. One of the two is signed on the lower right. The works of the Russian artist Vyacheslav Sawich Mikhailov are exhibited in prestigious museums such as the Tretyakov Gallery or the Museum of Modern Art in Moscow, the National Museum of Russian Art, the Museum of Nonconformist Art in St. Petersburg. Considered an expressionist author, he creates scenes of intense drama with different techniques. The design proposed here is part of a series of scenes full of dramatically intertwined figures in contortions of the body, with allegorical elements and patches of often red color, evoking blood. In frame.

Eyes 1995

Oil painting on canvas. Dated and signed on the back. Born in Seregno, Danilo Martinis was trained with Osvaldo Minotti. Painter and designer, he has furnished prestigious residences all over the world, his works are particularly appreciated in the United Arab Emirates and in Russia. He loves to express his thoughts through graphic-figurative images rendered through geometric effects and chromatic games, using mainly female figures as interpreters. In this work he proposes a very close-up of a female face, in particular framing the eyes.

Sculpture - volume

Volume sculpture in bas-relief, consisting of rings and other metal shapes mounted on a metal panel. In frame.

Panel in copper and brass, worked with irregular geometric figures. Mounted on a white lacquered wooden panel. Inspired by the works of the sculptor and painter Lino Bersani (Genoa 1935).