Modern Painting Signed Casimiro Ottone Female Portrait XX Century - Portrait of Dorina

Composition with Potted Plants

Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. The French painter Le Monnier had a very varied artistic output, including several Orientalist subjects linked to his time in Tunisia. This composition also features a terracotta vase, whose shape and decoration are reminiscent of North Africa. The painting has a slight tear in the lower right. Period frame.

Oil on canvas. Signed at the bottom A. Greppi, but the signature is inconsistent given the period and cannot be attributed to the renowned painter. The scene draws on the 19th-century genre of popular realism, which featured genre scenes with figures in folk costumes, often engaged in folkloric or working poses, often in intimate family moments. In this case, a woman sitting on a meadow in the woods, busy with her sewing, caresses the head of the young man lying before her, perhaps her son. The painting is presented in a period frame.

Gouache on cardboard. View of the Bay of Naples with Mount Vesuvius erupting, while the fishermen's lives continue as usual! Framed in period style.

Gouache on cardboard. Wide view of the Bay of Naples, taken from the hill north of the city, with a commoner walking along the path. Framed in period style.

City View

Oil on wood. Signed lower center and on the back. Aldo Bressanutti, a Friulian painter and engraver over a century old, has created numerous views of Friulian and Istrian cities, rendered with an initially hyperrealist style that then evolved, starting in the 1970s, into a surrealist approach. This aerial view of a small town likely dates to the 1960s. Despite its faithfulness to real-world geometry, the color palette and illustration-like style stand out. The work is presented in a frame.

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.

Female Portrait

Watercolor on paper. Signed lower left. Vincenzo Migliaro always found Naples, with its vibrant popular life, his main source of inspiration. He depicted various figures from Neapolitan everyday life, both in specific settings and as half-length portraits, as in this case. The work has some moisture stains on the paper. Framed in period style.

Female Portrait

Watercolor on paper. Signed lower left. Vincenzo Migliaro always found Naples, with its vibrant popular life, his main source of inspiration. He depicted various figures from Neapolitan everyday life, both in specific settings and as half-length portraits, as in this case. The work has some moisture stains on the paper. Framed in period style.

Mixed technique on paper. Initials AS at lower right. A bouquet of roses stands out against a blue background. The painting is presented in a contemporary ebonized frame, decorated with gilded carvings.

Inlay made with various woods. The inlay depicts the figure of a cellist in eighteenth-century dress. Francesco Ferrario was an accomplished cabinetmaker, influenced by the Neoclassical and Art Nouveau movements. Having trained in drawing at the Brera Academy, after collaborating with the finest artists of the time, he opened a workshop in Milan, first on Via Tenca, and then in 1927 on Corso Sempione. A label on the back of the work places it among the workshops of this latter location. The work is presented in a period frame. A version of this work appears in Bianca Tosatti's monograph, "I Ferrario maestri di tarsia," published in 2000.

Fluorescent Polychrome Dynamics, 2019

Fluorescent paper on black cardboard. The back features a label from the artist's studio with the title, description, and date of the work. The work is published in the artist's catalog "Geometrie cromo-cinetiche" on page 26 (attached to the work). A graduate in Industrial Design, Dario Zaffaroni's artistic career traces its roots back to the 1960s. Visual perception is the cornerstone of his work. In the Cromodinamiche Fluorescenti series, he works with shapes, geometric reliefs, and fluorescent cut-out paper: the fluorescence acts as a powerful visual stimulus, almost as if it were a draw for attention. The geometric shapes, in their mathematical rigor, seem imprisoned in colored stripes that intersect like laces, bars, constraints. But as soon as the observer shifts their perspective, the forms free themselves and acquire dynamism and energy, inviting them to play with variations in tone, light, refractions, shadows, and shapes that result from the observer's movement relative to the artwork. The artwork is housed in a display case.

The Medical Herb Seller

Oil on canvas. West Africa. The naive-style painting depicts a woman selling medicinal herbs, holding a sign indicating the ailments she cures. These types of paintings, often used as advertisements for market stalls, reference traditional African values of motherhood, fertility, and prosperity, but transposed into a contemporary cultural context.