Trompe L'Oeil with Landscape Oil on Canvas Contemporary Art

Oil on canvas. View of a verdant countryside crossed by a path and framed by two red curtains. Zanfagna name on the back but the author's name is unknown.

Portrait of Woman Oil Painting on Canvas 20th Century

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.

Mountain Landscape by Luigi Bocca First Half of 1900s

Watercolor on paper. Signed at the bottom right. Luigi Bocca was one of the major representatives of Verism in Vigevano, which was part of the Social Art, also called the Art of the Humbles because of the depicted subjects belonging to the lower classes. Art was especially used to denounce their condition. The artist painted also other subjects such as portraits and he was also an interior designer. He studied in Milan and he moved to Chiavari where he frescoes churches and villas. The depicted landscape is an effective view of the mountains with some cows grazing. Fluid and wide brush strokes with blurred outlines. Coeval frame.

Maurizio Bottarelli Acrylic On Canvas 20th Century

Untitled 1973

Acrylic on canvas. Signature, date 1973, technique and place of execution (Bologna) on the back. There is also a partial label from the Cultural Association of Art of Milan. Born in Fidenza (Parma) and artistically trained at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Bologna, Maurizio Bottarelli has travelled a lot abroad (London, United States, Austria, Australia,...), looking for inspiration for his work in the place he visited. His language is peculiar for the never ending dialogue, that crosses through all of his production, between the two main character elements of the canvases, the matter and the colour, based on experimentation, the search, the stratification of matter - pigments, paper, glue, paint, solvent - that were all made possible by his exceptional technical ability. His landscapes, inspired initially by his travels, are more and more projected towards abstraction, until they disregard any reference to real locations. Just like his portraits of human figures (the "heads"), they are representations that could be defined as universal of humankind and the human condition, that are investigated in the marked, suffering faces, contracted in a grimace of fear or pain, as a true "topography of pain". All of his production is presented in more than a hundred exhibits in Italy and abroad; he participated in all the most important collective and thematic exhibitions that document contemporary art in Italy from the sixties till now.

Work of Ugo Carrega, Engraving and Enamel on Board, Contemporary Art

Wanders in Thought..., 1990

Engraving and enamel on board. Signature and date on the back. Carrega was a poet and artist from Genoa but active mostly in Milan, one of the main exponents of the visual poetry even if he prefered to call it "New Writing" that is an experimental writing that puts together different signs of extraction. He also founded in 1965 the magazine "Tool: symbolic writing notebooks" that is an experimental poetry in which signs of differen nature, oral and graphic, act equally. The piece in question is an example of that idea of art.

Glimpse of Milan by Natale Addamiano

Castello Sforzesco, 1987-'88

Oil painting on canvas. Signed bottom right. On the back further signature with the date, 1987-'88. Addamiano, born in Bari, trained artistically in Milan, where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, where he tought Painting for several years. He has participated in several exhibitions, shows and awards, both Italian and international, in particular in Japan for his collaboration with an important Tokyo gallery. In 2018 in the exhibition entitled "Addamiano, a painting that tells the light", he was the protagonist of his first personal exhibition in Rome. He lives and works in Milan, to which he has dedicated several works, such as this small but intense glimpse of the Castello Sforzesco.

The landscape of Antonio Pedretti

Mixed technique on paper. Signed in the lower right. Not allocated to any title, but recall the series of paintings titled "Swampy" for the subject. In the frame.

Louis Icart Etching 1936

Gay Trio 1936

Retouched and hand painted etching. Signed with pencil bottom right. Louis Icart, born in Toulouse in 1888, moved to Paris in 1907, where he devoted himself to painting, to graphic illustrations, quickly becoming one of the main exponents of Art Déco, reaching fame both in Europe and in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s. It is peculiar, in his production, the representation of sensual and provocative female figures, often clearly erotic, but always in a very ironic and humorous. Horses, dogs and cats often appear as co-protagonists of the scene. In this etching, dated 1936, all of these elements of his can be recognized: the femme fatale, inside a club, sitting in a sensual way on the tall bar stool, accompanied by... two nice dogs, one which is even drinking with a straw!

Enrico Felisari Oil on Board 20th Century

City Glimpse 1930

Oil on board. Signature with dedication and date at the bottom right. Enrico Felisari was born and raisd in Cremona but he moved to Milan where he worked several years preferring to a pictorical production of human figures and heads studies creating a series of anatomical plates appreciated by the Ministry of Education and used by him in his courses at the Ambrosian Academy of Painting, which he directed for ten years. He also devoted himself to the landscape and floral arrangements, as well as some subjects of sacred art. He used different techniques, from pastel to oil to mixed techniques, creating delicate works in interpretation and colors. The small tablet presented here proposes a less frequent theme in its production, a glimpse of a barren city (the columns in the background resemble those in front of the Memorial of the Fallen of Milan), where, however, stand out as protagonists, albeit stylized, human figures. The painting is presented in a frame.