Edita Walterowna Broglio – Still-life (in black)

EDITA WALTEROWNA BROGLIO (Smiltene, Latvia 1886 – Rome 1977) Still-life (in black) 1964 Pietrasante mosaic tails, 32 x 33.5 cm Provenance: Rome, private collection Bibliography: Edita Walterowna Broglio, catalog of the exhibition of Macerata, edited by Giuseppe Appella, Mario Quesada, Anne-Marie Sauzeau Boetti, Rome 1991, cat. 96.

Roberto Melli – The Worker

ROBERTO MELLI (Ferrara 1885 – Rome 1958) The Worker 1940 Oil on canvas, 70 x 60 cm Provenance: Rome, Luisa and Giuseppe Natale collection; Rome, Pasquale Natale collection Bibliography: Roberto Melli, exh. cat., Ferrara, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna Palazzo dei Diamanti, text by Rossana Bossaglia, Ferrara 1975, cat. 63; Roberto Melli, presentation of Antonio Del…

Marco Calderini – The Po River at Turin

MARCO CALDERINI (Turin 1850 – 1941) The Po River at Turin 1880 Oil on canvas, 120 x 228 cm Signed lower left “M. Calderini” On backside cartouche of the Esposizione Nazionale di Torino of the 1880 Provenance: Piedmont, private collection Bibliography and Exhibitions: IV Esposizione Nazionale. XXXIX Esposizione SocietĂ  Promotrice delle Belle Arti di Torino,…

Giovacchino (Rome 1756-1822) e Pietro Belli (1780-1828) – Monument to Maria Christina of Austria, from Canova

Giovacchino (Rome 1756-1822) and Pietro Belli (1780-1828) Monument to Maria Cristina of Austria, from Canova 1815 ca. Carrara statuary marble, black marble, hammered bronze, chiseled and gilded with double gilding, 21.7 x 18.5 x 7 cm Provenance: Italy, private collection This very refined scale reduction of the Monument to Maria Cristina of Austria by Canova, judged by Stendhal to be the most beautiful monument ever built, testifies to the cult of contemporaries for the great sculptor and the collecting taste for precious replicas of his inventions in different techniques, from gilded bronze…

Laurenti elegiac motif

Cesare Laurenti – Study of Head: Elegiac Motif

Cesare Laurenti Mesola, Ferrara 1854-Venice 1936 Study of Head: Elegiac Motif 1895 Oil on panel 58.5 x 96 Signed lower right: “C. Laurenti” Provenance: Rome, private collection Bibliography: Mario Morasso, “Artisti contemporanei: Cesare Laurenti”, in Emporium, January 1902, vol. XV, nr. 85, p. 13 (ill.), 14; Cristina Beltrami, “Cesare Laurenti: dalla pittura di genere all’idea”,…

Francesco Pozzi – Two portraits

Francesco Pozzi Portoferraio 1790-Florence 1844 Portrait of a young man – Portrait of a woman ‱ 1810-19 ca. Pair of wax portraits, mounted on a blu foreground glass in a gilded frame, Ø 11 cm Both signed on the base of the bust, in relief: “F. POZZI F.”; backside of the  Portrait of a young…

Paolo Troubetzkoy – Gabriele D’Annunzio

Paolo Troubetzkoy Intra 1866 – Suna 1937 Gabriele D’Annunzio 1911 Bronze, lost wax, with dark patina, 43 x 31 x 32 cm Signed and dated at base: “Paul Troub[…] 1911”; foundry stamp: “C. Valsuani Cire Perdue” Provenance: Italy, private collection The long-lasting friendship between D’Annunzio and Troubetzkoy, witnessed by their meetings, correspondence and a poetical…