Ubaldo Oppi, Oil on Plywood, 1930s - The Bagpipe Player
Features
The Bagpipe Player
Artist: Ubaldo Oppi (1889-1942)
Artwork title: Il suonatore di zampogna
Age: 20th Century / 1901 - 2000
Subject: Genre Scenes
Artistic technique: Painting
Technical specification: Oil on Plywood
Description : Il suonatore di zampogna
Oil on plywood. 1930s. Signed on the rear right corner. Ubaldo Oppi, born in Bologna, had a passionated life: he studied painting firstly in Vienna then moving around Europe stopping for a long time in Pris where he frequented Picasso; back in Venice he started to expose. In 1915 he left the front joning the alpine troops and fought until 1918 when he was deported to Mauthausen. During the first postwar he moved to Milan where, thanks to Margherita Sarfatti, he approached the movement of the Seven Painter on the italian 1900sto which he had been related for a short time. He took part to several Biennali in Venice and abroad and in 1926 e took parto to the Exposition on Italian 1900s at the Permanente palace in Milan. In 1928 he coverted to Catholicism and started including religious subjects in his prodution that until that time was mostly focused on figures and portraits. In 1942 he resumed service in the Army but soon he had to go back to Venic because of his health problemns and died on October 25th 1942. The painting in question is a genre subject, an old musician. Comes with coeval frame and needs to be restored.
Product Condition:
Fair condition. Wear consistent with age and use.
Frame Size (cm):
Height: 62
Width: 72
Depth: 6
Artwork dimensions (cm):
Height: 39
Width: 50