Modern Painting The Blue Grotto in Capri Gouache on Cardboard '900

Madonna Praying

Oil on panel. Signed lower right. Bergamo-born painter Umberto Marigliani devoted himself primarily to sacred art, working as a fresco painter in various churches but also producing oil paintings. The work is presented in a frame.

Gouache on cardboard. The view of the Bay of Naples at night, illuminated by the erupting Vesuvius volcano, is part of a large production for tourism, due to the evocative beauty of the location. The work is presented in a period frame.

Glimpse of the Country

Oil on panel. Giulio Vito Musitelli, an artist from Bergamo, was a portraitist, landscape painter, and a highly personal and sensitive painter of rural life. Presented here is a small glimpse of a village, where the nearly uniform color of the earth and stone, struck by a few rays of light, reveals a narrow alley. The work is presented in a contemporary frame (1920s-1930s).

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.

Portrait of a Young Girl

Oil on canvas. The work is a copy of the painting "Réflexion"(1893) by Adolphe William Bouguereau, a French painter known for his photorealistic painting, characterized by the perfection of detail. The painter created several works under this title, characterized by female figures, both popular ones like the one presented here, and from other social classes, portrayed in a thoughtful, reflective pose. In this work, the young commoner is seated on the edge of a stone fountain, the jug to be filled resting at her side, and holds a needle and thread in her hands, intent on mending but with a gaze lost in thought. The work is presented in a period frame.

Self-portrait

Pen on paper. Signed and dated lower right; title on the left. On the back is a dedication signed by his son Gian Maria Arata, dated 2000. Francesco Arata, originally from Cremona, was primarily a landscape painter who straddled the boundary between classicism and innovation. His work includes numerous portraits, especially from his Milanese period, but here the artist expresses himself through a sketched ink drawing that emphasizes the facial features, dominating the rest of the head and body. Presented in a frame.

Saint Margaret Molina

Oil on panel. Signed lower right G. Viviani. View of the small church of Molina, overlooking Lake Como. In a contemporary frame.

Oil on panel. Signed lower right R.lo Pellegrini. It is probably a work by Romolo Pellegrini, who lived between the 19th and 20th centuries, an artist of landscapes and still lifes with delicate colors. Here we see a bright, flat countryside, with a flock of sheep grazing in the meadows, watched over by the shepherd. The work is presented in a contemporary frame, with missing parts.

Lights from the Lake, 1960

Oil painting on canvas. Signed and dated lower right. The painting, coming from a private collection in Pavia, is published on page 73 of Simona Morani's monograph dedicated to the artist Primo Carena (Bolis editions), with the presentation signed by the art critic Rossana Bossaglia. The lake landscape well expresses the subdued intimacy associated with the rigorous realism that characterize the pictorial production of the painter from Pavia. In his landscapes Carena tends "to capture the atmospheric reality of the places without indulging in descriptivism... but constantly supported by a lyrical vein, which is the underlying motif of all his production". The work is presented in a period frame.

Indiscreet Lock 2019

Mixed media: plexiglass artpiece with fabric inserts and oil finishings. datend and signed on the back. The artist says of himself: 'It is the great love for art that has driven me to realise emotions and colourful visions that have always lived in my lively imagination. Suggestions that derive from various pictorial influences that I have revisited in a personal interpretation'.

Painting on canvas. Signature and date at the bottom right. Realist-style view of Via Dante in Milan, with a glimpse of Largo Cairoli with the monument to Giuseppe Garibaldi and the Sforza Castle in the background; in the foreground, a happy family visiting the city. The canvas is mounted on polystyrene on the back. Framed.

The Man in the Kitchen

Mixed media on paper. Signed lower center. The renowned Russian set designer, painter, and illustrator Nicola Benois, who was the chief set designer at Milan's Teatro Alla Scala from 1935, contributed some of his drawings in 1977 to illustrate Francesco de' Rogati's book, "La cucina dell' uomo solo" (SM editore, 1977). The original drawing, which later served as the cover illustration for the text, printed in a smaller format, is shown here. Framed.