Sotheby's to sell Milan and Verona Along With Other Masterpieces |
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'Naturalist Painting’ by Adolfo Tommasi, one of the principle Tuscan naturalist painters of the late nineteenth century, contrasts ‘Urban Veduta’ painting. Dating back to 1884-85, Petriolo presso Firenze (Petriolo near Florence) is among Tommasi’s best works, a clear, solid and detailed representation of reality through the eyes of the Tuscan artist, who was one of Carlo Markò’s students as a youth. This oil on canvas was presented in 1885 at the Florence Annual Fine Arts Exposition. The following year it was shown in Brera and in 1888, at the National Fine Arts Exposition in Bologna. The journey by train – to Petriolo, a village on the outskirts of Florence in this case – is a subject Tommasi particularly loved and addressed often in his career (99x201 cm, estimated value € 250,000-350,000). The artistic fortune of Eugenio Cecconi is mainly tied to his works with the subject of hunting, which is typical in Tuscan naturalist painting. Also belonging to the painter from Livorno is a series of works, often the result of aristocratic commissioning and therefore little known to the public, which demonstrate Cecconi's abilities as a veduta painter. La Terrazza su mare (The Terrace on the Sea) is an oil on canvas with an unusual subject, with the light, quick brushstrokes done in the late nineteenth century (105x78 cm, estimated value € 80,000-120,000).  In 1851 – Piazza delle Erbe a Verona was painted by Carlo Ferrari, known as Ferrarin. The painting continues Migliara’s ‘Veduta Urbana’ tradition but is set apart by a personal taste for the 'local colour'. The Piazza delle Erbe - centre of economic and political life in Verona – was a constant source of inspiration for Ferrarin, so much that beginning in 1839 he presented more diverse views of the square. As with the earlier veduta by Migliara, it is possible that this painting was also commissioned by an Austrian. This is suggested both by a label on the back of the painting and the fact that Ferrarin enjoyed considerable trading fortune, and not only with the local aristocracy; among his most important admirers and buyers were Field Marshall Radetzky and Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph who visited his studio in 1851 (oil on canvas, 115 x 93cm., estimated value € 50,000-70,000). A significant example of Divisionist Painting, Emilio Longoni followed in 1905 with Alba (Sunrise), a large oil on canvas (93x167), shown to the public for the first time in the same year at Venice’s International Exhibition (value € 320,000-420,000). Figure painting is well represented in this auction catalogue with several paintings, among which a beautiful Ritratto di signora con la pelliccia (Portrait of a lady with fur) by Giuseppe De Nittis. Completed between 1883 and 1884, the painter worked with fast, unfinished brushstrokes, primarily concentrating on the face of the model, who seems to resemble the waitress Suzon, the protagonist of the 1882 painting by Edouart Manet, Bar at the Folies-Bergère and a famous model from that era (102x52 cm, estimated value € 70,000-100,000). Completing the catalogue is a section dedicated to Neapolitan Painting with works by artists such as Vincenzo Irolli (La Treccia recisa (The Cut Braid), oil on canvas, 82 x 60 cm, estimated value € 38,000-55,000), Attilio Pratella (Vomero, 40x50 cm, estimated value € 15,000-20,000) and a more unusual Carlo Siviero with the diptych Officine: Le Macchine, (Workshops: The Machines) which portrays the interiors of workshops of the metallurgic Corradini plant in the eastern outskirts of Naples, one of the region’s main industrial posts in the early twentieth century. Click on logo below to add this article to your favorite Social Website ~ |
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