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Lot 59
BOOK TROUGH. A Victorian brass mounted extending book trough. Width, fully extended, 55cm. Please note that all items in this auction are previously owned & are offered on behalf of private vendors. If detail on condition is required on any lot(s) PLEASE ASK FOR A CONDITION REPORT BEFORE BIDDING. The absence of a condition report does not imply the lot is perfect.WE CAN SHIP THIS LOT, but NOT if part of a large, multiple lots purchase.
Lot 11
(Milano 1839 - Davesco ( Lugano ) 1906)Cm 36x65,5 | In 14.17x25.79Oil on canvasHe was born in Milan. There is very little biographical information about his youth. However, he participated with his uncle Angelo Trezzini (brother-in-law of Domenico Induno) in the 1859 campaign. He also attended Brera from 1853 to 1858. In '66 he put down roots in Davesco from where he rarely moved and this was perhaps a limitation for his painting. However, he participated in Italian exhibitions (e.g., in Asti, at the Esposizione artistico industriale where he received a medal in 1869, in Milan in 1872 and 1881, in Turin in 1880 with Veduta di Davesco and in 1884 with Ottobre). In '75 he received the Mylius prize. He was a painter almost exclusively of landscapes ("monogamous painter almost without infidelity," Adriano Soldini); he always had to deal with economic problems, selling, indeed selling out, his canvases to Germanic tourists. Sometimes he composed portraits, much more rarely dealt with genre painting (The Lesson, with the Capuchin friar schooling, in a kitchen interior, two little girls). His landscapes are almost always precise views, caught in plein air, of Lake Lugano seen from Davesco, from Cureggia, from Paradiso. He was, in Martinola's words, a "mountain" and "lake" painter. Preda, while painting from life, never lapses into trite verism or even, despite the repetition of the subject, into boredom. His paintings are populated by figures: peasant women with their panniers, washerwomen (where some echoes of Moses Bianchi can perhaps be traced), or "fine" ladies with their parasols open to shelter from the sun. Sometimes he went as far as Campione (Madonna dei Ghirli) or Lake Maggiore, Engadine, Liguria, but never to Lake Como. He probably did not even go to Holland, although there are some of his canvases depicting mills and Dutch landscapes, perhaps executed directly from photographs. Other times in his landscapes he inserted animals, cows, goats (Cows at the watering trough), donkeys (Seven Donkeys at the Fountain, Palizian in its rendering of fur). He was bound by deep friendship with another Ticinese, Luigi Monteverde, who, one summer in 1888, rented a roccolo on Mount Boglia, hosting his friend Preda (this is what he would say in an interview that appeared in the newspaper "Genevois" in 1894: "Nous vécûmes toujours dans la plus parfaite harmonie: la peinture ne nous divisa jamais").
Lot 12
(Milano 1839 - Davesco ( Lugano ) 1906)Cm 36x65,5 | In 14.17x25.79Oil on canvasHe was born in Milan. There is very little biographical information about his youth. However, he participated with his uncle Angelo Trezzini (brother-in-law of Domenico Induno) in the 1859 campaign. He also attended Brera from 1853 to 1858. In '66 he put down roots in Davesco from where he rarely moved and this was perhaps a limitation for his painting. However, he participated in Italian exhibitions (e.g., in Asti, at the Esposizione artistico industriale where he received a medal in 1869, in Milan in 1872 and 1881, in Turin in 1880 with Veduta di Davesco and in 1884 with Ottobre). In '75 he received the Mylius prize. He was a painter almost exclusively of landscapes ("monogamous painter almost without infidelity," Adriano Soldini); he always had to deal with economic problems, selling, indeed selling out, his canvases to Germanic tourists. Sometimes he composed portraits, much more rarely dealt with genre painting (The Lesson, with the Capuchin friar schooling, in a kitchen interior, two little girls). His landscapes are almost always precise views, caught in plein air, of Lake Lugano seen from Davesco, from Cureggia, from Paradiso. He was, in Martinola's words, a "mountain" and "lake" painter. Preda, while painting from life, never lapses into trite verism or even, despite the repetition of the subject, into boredom. His paintings are populated by figures: peasant women with their panniers, washerwomen (where some echoes of Moses Bianchi can perhaps be traced), or "fine" ladies with their parasols open to shelter from the sun. Sometimes he went as far as Campione (Madonna dei Ghirli) or Lake Maggiore, Engadine, Liguria, but never to Lake Como. He probably did not even go to Holland, although there are some of his canvases depicting mills and Dutch landscapes, perhaps executed directly from photographs. Other times in his landscapes he inserted animals, cows, goats (Cows at the watering trough), donkeys (Seven Donkeys at the Fountain, Palizian in its rendering of fur). He was bound by deep friendship with another Ticinese, Luigi Monteverde, who, one summer in 1888, rented a roccolo on Mount Boglia, hosting his friend Preda (this is what he would say in an interview that appeared in the newspaper "Genevois" in 1894: "Nous vécûmes toujours dans la plus parfaite harmonie: la peinture ne nous divisa jamais").
Lot 34
(Venezia 1879 - Venezia 1933)Cm 20x31 | In 7.87x12.20Oil on panelPainter Beppe Ciardi was born in Venice in March 1875. He completed his classical studies and studied natural sciences; but from childhood he had been trained in the secrets of painting technique by carefully observing the work of his father Guglielmo Ciardi. He attended the Venice Academy of Fine Arts, studying figure painting with Ettore Tito until 1899, when he successfully exhibited "Terra in fiore," now in the Marangoni Museum in Udine, and "Monte Rosa" in Venice. But already in 1894 he had exhibited in Milan, at the Castello Sforzesco, sixty studies from life, made between the ages of 15 and 19, for which he had real success. In 1900 at the Brera Exposition he won the Fumagalli Prize in 1901 a gold medal at the Munich International; in 1904 a silver medal at San Francisco of California and other awards at Exhibitions in Vienna, Brussels, Barcelona. He held solo exhibitions in Milan in Florence, Naples, Rome, Trieste, Brussels, and Liege. Among painter Beppe Ciardi's major works: "The Island of Madness"; "Shepherdess and Hay Wagon," purchased by the King; "The Tower of Tessera," in the Mussolini Gallery; "Flaps of Homeland," in the Academy of San Luca; "At the Spring," at the Chamber of Commerce; "On the Alps," "Saltimbanchi" and "White Cow" in the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome; "Cows at the Watering Trough," in the International Gallery in Venice; "The Two Cows," in the Luxembourg Museum in Paris; "White Clouds," in the collection of Sir William Ingram in England; "Sea Symphony," in the Rosenthein Collection in Paris; "Milkers," owned by Comm. Palleran of Buenos Aires; "Horse," in the Ricci Oddi Museum in Piacenza. An artist in love with nature, to which he scrupulously adhered, seeking to capture its most suggestive flashes and reflections of light, for more than forty years he worked uninterruptedly, producing a great quantity of works that are scattered all over the world among the best collectors. At the 1912 Venice Biennale he exhibited as many as forty-five works in a special room. At the Forty Years Exhibition (Venice 1935) he was given a "posthumous" exhibition with 27 works. Biographical notes taken from the Dizionario Illustrato dei Pittori, Disegnatori ed Incisori Italiani A.M. Comanducci.
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