Antique Mirror Carved Gilded Wood Italy Early XX Century - Italy, Early XX Century

Still Life, 1974

Oil on cardboard. Signed and dated lower right. Ercole Pignatelli, originally from Salento but now living in Milan and Gazzola, has remained deeply connected throughout his personal and artistic journey to his Salento roots, which are reflected in the colors, shapes, and landscapes of his sculptures and paintings. In his work, Pignatelli explores the places of desire, life, memories, and the generative power of matter. Presented in a frame.

Woman at the Window 1980

Oil on canvas. Signature, title, and date on the back. Ercole Pignatelli, originally from Salento but now living in Milan and Gazzola, has remained deeply connected throughout his personal and artistic journey to his Salento roots, which are reflected in the colors, shapes, and landscapes of his sculptures and paintings. In his work, Pignatelli explores the places of desire, life, memories, and the generative power of matter. Presented framed.

Val Vogna

Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. The back features a label from the 1928 Venice Exhibition. Mountain view of the Val Vogna, a small, wild side valley of the Valsesia. Trained at the Brera Academy under Tallone, Milanese artist Lodovico Zambeletti successfully devoted himself to landscape subjects, for which he expressed a particular sensitivity, although he also painted genre and environmental figures and was an important portraitist. The painting has slight paint loss; it requires restoration. Framed.

Portrait of a Lady

Crayons on cardboard. Signed lower right. Piero Galanti, an artist from Brescia, primarily painted landscapes, still lifes, and portraits. In his portraiture, Galanti favored depicting his subjects in solemn poses, in keeping with the tradition of official portraiture, taking pleasure in the preciousness of silks and velvets. The work is presented in a contemporary frame.

Portrait of a Boy

Crayons on cardboard. Signed upper right. Piero Galanti, an artist from Brescia, primarily painted landscapes, still lifes, and portraits. In his portraiture, Galanti favored depicting his subjects in solemn poses, in keeping with the tradition of official portraiture, taking pleasure in the preciousness of silks and velvets. Contemporary frame.

The Shepherdess

Oil on canvas. A beautiful figure of a young girl in traditional pastoral costume, elegant in her gold-fringed vest, her hat with a peacock feather, her earrings, her water bottle on her belt, and her hooked staff held firmly in her hands: it seems more like a portrait in folk costume than a real figure of the people. Pesenti became famous for his views of interiors, often of churches, but also for genre scenes with popular figures. The painting has been restored in the past. It is presented in a period frame.

Colonna del Verziere

Oil on panel. Signed lower left. Title and cartouche on the back, indicating provenance from the Sormani collection in Missaglia. Through vibrant, undefined brushstrokes and vivid, intense colors (both oil and pastel) that are attentive to atmospheric variations, Veronese artist Erma Zago often portrays glimpses of city life, set in the streets and parks of the cities he inhabits, predominantly Milan. This is the case in this view of the Milanese monument, the column surmounted by the Cross, located in Largo Augusto in Milan, which takes its name from the Verziere or Verzée, the ancient fruit and vegetable market that was once located there. The work is presented framed.

Portrait of Dorina

Oil on canvas mounted on a wooden panel. The artist's monogram appears on the left margin. A small label, likely a participation in an exhibition, bearing the title "Dorina" is attached to the back. Casimiro Ottone, a painter and decorator from Vigevano, created numerous figure studies, as well as still lifes and floral compositions. His attention to the figure is particularly evident in the dense sequence of intense female faces, which recall late Scapigliatura stylistic criteria. The work is presented in a mid-20th-century frame.

Mountain Landscape

Oil painting on canvas. Signed lower left. The Milanese painter Gino Federici specialized in Alpine views, as in this view, where in the foreground a flock of sheep drinks water from a stream, in the wide valley, under steep peaks. The painting is presented in a contemporary frame. It shows signs of previous restoration.

Copy from Paul Delaroche

Oil on canvas. This is a copy of the famous work by Paul Delaroche (1797-1856), which presents the story of baby Moses not as usually depicted, rescued from the waters, that is, at the moment of his discovery by the Pharaoh's daughter, but in the dramatic moment of the child's entrustment/abandonment to save him from the Pharaoh's decree, with his sister Miriam, who had been entrusted with the task, watching the basket hidden among the reeds on the shore. Delaroche's work, dated around 1853, is actually lost, but is known through engravings and preparatory studies. Some paint loss from a vertical scratch at the top. The painting is presented in a period gilded frame.

Ticino, Stormy Morning, 1946

Oil on cardboard. Signed lower right. Further signature, title, and date on the back. Anna Bocca, a Vigevano artist and daughter of her teacher, the painter Luigi, distinguished herself for her veristic work, influenced by Chiarismo, in her pursuit of dominant light effects on the scene. The work is presented in a contemporary frame.

Sea Glimpse

Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. In a stretch of Nordic sea, near a coastline inhabited by a small cluster of houses, a small boat braves the rough sea. The German painter Andreas Dirks made a name for himself with his Nordic seascapes featuring boats at the mercy of rough waters. The painting is presented in a mid-20th-century frame.