Modern Painting Signed Domenico Pesenti Oil on Canvas XIX Century - The Shepherdess

Ploughing in Bugey

Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. On the back is a cartouche from the Société des Beaux-Arts de Lyon with the title "La bourage en Bugey." Terraire, who lived and worked for many years in Lyon, specialized in mountain landscapes in the southeastern regions of France, including Bugey (a historical and natural region in the Ain department, between Lyon and Geneva). His landscapes feature recurring figures of animals, grazing herds, and farmers going about their work. The work has some old patches visible on the back. It is presented in a contemporary frame, with several missing parts. Cows grazing in Saint Jean de Sixt, in Haute-Savoie, near La Clusaz, a subject in which the artist specialized. His broad, colorful touch is perfectly suited to the sumptuous landscapes he depicts, preferably choosing motifs with a slightly high horizon line to best convey the majesty and grandeur of our Alpine panoramas.

Christ the Worker ca. 1950

Oil on canvas. Signed lower right F. Venzo SJ (Societas Jesu, the motto of the Jesuits). This is a work by the Jesuit friar Mario Venzo, a Venetian painter who, after painting during his bohemian youth in Paris, devoted himself to monastic life in 1940, while continuing to paint. This work depicts a young worker in the foreground, inside a modern artisan's workshop, his head surrounded by light: this is likely a modern projection of the young Jesus at work in his father's workshop. The style of the work harks back to Venzo's pictorial period before 1953, the year after which his work became more vibrant with bright, vivid colors and a more stylized figure, while still often focusing on sacred subjects. The work is presented in a frame.

Interior scene

Oil painting on canvas. Not signed, but on the back there is a dedication "Alla signora Clelia Mazzioli, con stima Gaetano Bellei 23 gennaio 1909". The big scene, set in a popular kitchen, sees a woman reading cards to two girls, who ask for explanations by pointing to the figures that appear and seem to compare them with a text leaning on the chair. The work recalls the painting of Gaetano Bellei, due to the strong realism with which the painter painted above all scenes of daily peasant life; he is considered a master of the depiction of human affections and of human reactions and sensations. The painting has slight drops of color. It is proposed in a stylish frame.

We created Atypical Systems 1963/74

Serigraphs and photos. The work consists of three silk-screened cartoons (in cardboard box) with the text in English (original title "We have created atypical systems") and six photos portraying the artist, individually framed. On the back of the three serigraphs in English, numbered in sequence, there are the edition number 13/15, the date 1974 and the artist's signature; they also accompany three unsigned serigraphs with the text in Italian. Cioni Carpi, Milanese artist, engaged in conceptual and minimalist art, produced works in which imagination, sensitivity, expressive flair were fundamental. His creativity was also expressed in photography, installations, video, drawing, writing, the artist's book, as well as painting. The dimensions indicated are those of the single frame.

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.

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.

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.

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.