Large portrait of a Chinese aristocratic family.
An official depiction of a family of the imperial elite, arranged frontally according to the strict Confucian hierarchy. The figures, dressed in sumptuous, richly decorated ceremonial robes and embellished with auspicious symbols and insignia of rank, are depicted with a highly precise pictorial language, intended to enhance the family's prestige, social role, and dynastic continuity. Works such as this were commissioned to celebrate family lineage and were preserved in noble residences as a symbol of authority and ancestral memory.
Tempera and pigments on paper, China, second half of the 19th century.
Giovanni Fattori (1825-1908)
The White Wall.
Oil on panel, circa 1880, signed lower right, Gio Fattori.
The painting depicts a country scene in which a man and two horses stand motionless under the relentless sun of an early summer afternoon. The first horse, placed in the foreground but off-center to the right, abruptly interrupts the horizon line with the wall, presenting a perfect geometry that underpins the entire perspective of the painting. This is the essential motif of the composition, which generally consists of a few other elements, such as the blue sky, the arid ochre plain, and a seated man casting his shadow on the wall (almost as if he wanted to ideally continue its perspective). The composition is supported by a great static quality resulting from the skillful division of volumes and the balance of spaces. In this canvas, Fattori dramatizes the Macchiaioli technique, using patches reduced to the essentials of white, black, and blue, with a few rarefied intermediate tones. The result is a very intense light that, in addition to flooding the entire composition, conveying the image of a scorching summer day, helps to give the scene an undeniable quality of truth, an approach far removed from Romanticism. The suspended atmosphere of this painting, in some ways, almost seems to prelude the dreamlike dimension of metaphysical art, a potentially eternal wait.
Small still life signed Uli Biagini
Oil on paper and cardboard, ca. 1920
Adolphe Lalyre (1848-1933)
Nude of a Young Mermaid, oil on panel, ca. 1900.
Also written Adolphe Lalire or La Lyre, was a French academic painter born in Rouvres-en-Woëvre in 1848. He died in Courbevoie in 1933. After graduating from the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1875, he exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français between 1876 and 1929. Initially working with religious subjects, he soon began painting female nudes and mythological water nymphs, earning her the nickname "the mermaid painter." After discovering the Cotentin region in 1872, she moved to Carteret where she built a villa, known as the "Mermaid Castle." He also designed the stained glass windows of the choir of the church of Saint-Germain, destroyed in 1941. A member of the Association of French Artists from 1880, he received a medal at the Universal Exhibitions in Paris in 1889 and 1900. He was also an art critic, who wrote: "Le Nu féminin à travers les âges" (The Female Nude Through the Centuries), published in 1910.
Still Life
Oil on canvas, anonymous Expressionist painter, ca. 1900.
Metaphysical Landscape.
Oil on cardboard, ca. 1900-1920.
Large silkscreen on silk fabric inside a shaped wooden frame.
Italian manufacture from the 60s.
Orazio Orazi (1906-1979)
Tempera on canvas Untitled (The Gauls) 1949
signature and date on the front
Italian painter very active abroad, recognized by the name of Orazì and member of the Ecole de Paris. His career characterized by links with the historical avant-garde saw him exhibit at the Venice Art Biennale in '34 and '36 and in various Milanese galleries.
Orazio Orazi (1906-1979)
Tempera on canvas "The bullfight at Cheval" 1949
signature and date on the front
Italian painter very active abroad, recognized by the name of Orazì and member of the Ecole de Paris. His career characterized by the link with the historical avant-gardes saw him exhibit at the Venice Art Biennale in '34 and '36 and in various Milanese galleries.
Orazio Orazi (1906-1979) T
empera on canvas Untitled (The Cat) 1949
signature and date on the front
Italian painter very active abroad, recognized by the name of Orazì and member of the Ecole de Paris. His career characterized by links with the historical avant-garde saw him exhibit at the Venice Art Biennale in '34 and '36 and in various Milanese galleries.
Orazio Orazi (1906-1979)
Tempera on canvas Untitled
(The Fountain) 1949
Italian painter very active abroad, recognized by the name of Orazì and member of the Ecole de Paris. His career characterized by links with the historical avant-garde saw him exhibit at the Venice Art Biennale in '34 and '36 and in various Milanese galleries.
Franco Francini
Volvoli, oil on canvas, 1974.
Franco Francini
Green leaves, oil on canvas, 1978.
Noel Quintavalle (Ferrara 1893 - Alassio 1977)
Three young woman having a bath at the river.
Oil painting on panel, signed and dated 1958.
Three soldiers, oil painting, Italy late XVI century