Ubaldo Oppi, Oil on Plywood, 1930s

The Bagpipe Player

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.

Edouard Pignon Contemporary Oil On Canvas 1981

La plage", 1981

Oil on canvas. Signed and dated bottom right. Additional signature and date on the back, title on the frame. It also features a stamp of provenance with authentic signature from the "La Barcaccia" Gallery in Rome. Pignon was the son of miners, he moved to Paris in 1927, and worked as a construction worker and litographer, he attended evening classes and the Association of revolutionary artists and writers; in 1936 he met Picasso, with whom shared a deep friendship. Involved in the Resistance, he took part in the Salon de la libération in 1944. All of his pieces, from the thirties, with bright colours and strongly built volumes, to those after 1948, with more fluid strokes but charged with expressive violence, are always in touch with objective reality, represented in never descriptive shapes, spaces and movements. Next to the themes of social inspiration, he also developed different themed series: Olive Trees, Cockfights, Heads of Warriors, Harvesters and Nudes. This piece belongs to the "Beaches" series. Framed. Comes with autenthication on photo.

Otto Gutfreund, Clay Sculpture, 1910s

Famale Bust

Clay sculpture. Signed down on the back. Otto Gutfreund was a czechoslovakian sculptor that after studying in Prague and Paris, became famous around 1910s for his cubist styled sculptures. After taking part to the First World War he moved up to a more realistic style following the period of " return to order" after war that characterized also arts. His sculpting prodution, mostly bronze made, also availed itself of clay and ceramic using.

Bernard Aubertin Contemporary Art Application on Metal Cardboard

Dessin de Feu, 1974

Application of burnt matches on metal cardboard. On the back ther is the tag of the Centro Gallery in Brescia with work's data and artist's signature. Aubertin is considerated the "monochrome painter" that focused his artistic researches above red colore, meant as fire, energy: from 1958 he started makink his famous red monochrome canvases, known as Tableaux Feu ( Fire Paintings), animating them with various elements such as nails ( Tableaux Clous), metal wire (Tableaux Fil de Fer), metches (Parcours d'allumettes) and several material such as candles, nets, iron nets. In his metaphysical conception of painting he meant to traspose soulk's energy, spiritual being, on canva through the color red. Startin from 1960s Aubertin introducted in his repertory also fire, physical manifestation of his red color. He made several abstract compositions using matches that , onece fired up, created spontaneous variations made by the flame. Between 1980s and 1990s his artistic prodution turned to performances in which himself burned pianos and cars, while in the last years of his life red was replaced with white, black and gold. The board comes along with authenticity released by the Archive Bernard Aubertin' Works. N. Archiving DFEA47-1000237523.

Graphics by Gianni Colombo Contemporary Art 1970

Indian ink on silver paper. Signature in the lower right corner. The work is sold with authentication on picture issued by the Artistic Commission of Gianni Colombo's Archive (Authentication N. 1333), which places the work within the series of graphics "Without title" made by the artist approximately in 1970. Gianni Colombo was born in Milan and studied at Brera Academy. Since he was young, he used different materials and languages from pottery to graphics, from photography to cinema. In 1959 he was one of the Group T founders, whose mass and personal demonstrations had a common program and aimed at saving the main historical avant-gardes' themes - especially futurist, dadaist and constructivist's ones - in order to revise them on the basis of more recent experiments and artistic research. Since the 60s, he experimented himself with the first kinetic works with new perceptive structures through game of lights using Plexiglas, light projections on mirrors, virtual shapes and movements, structures and habitable settings. Presented in frame.

Rossini Luigi

Oil on canvas

Oil on canvas by Rossini Luigi (artist from the Brianza, Italy), well-known by collectors but little exposed to the market.

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!

Roberto Aloi Oil on Board Italy 20th Century

Landscape, 1949

Oil on board, Signed at the bottom right. On the back there is a paper of participation to the " National prize of painting City of Gallarate". Roberto Aloi was a painter and sculptor from 20th century born in Palermo. He made deep friends with important painters and sculptors such as Dudreville, Messina, etc. He approached the twentieth century, Abstractionism, futurism and artistic trends of his time. From 1950 he worked in architecture and design publishing internationally successful books for the publisher Hoepli. The proposed landscape, a coastal glimpse, expresses his concept of naturalism, "so enchanted and pure that a short step separates him from abstraction". In frame.

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.

The Baragia (Civiglio) 1944 Oil on Board

Oil on board. Signed A.Schereschewsky at the bottom right. On the back ther is the title and another signature" Aglaia Schereschewsky, widow.." It is a glimpse of the hills around Civiglio, a small village close to Como, that rises on a hill that faces the city and the lake. The signature recalls the polish post-impressionist artist Wladimir Schereschewsky (1863-1943) that lived for a long time in Italy and he had a daughter whose name was Aglaia born in 1893 and died in 1978. The painting come with frame.