Country of origin: Italy
Medium: Oil on board
Signed: Signed, titled and dated lower left
Dated: 1914
Condition: Very good condition for age
Size: 14.00" x 18.50" (35.6cm x 47.0cm)
Framed Size: 20.00" x 24.50" (50.8cm x 62.2cm)
Provenance: Private UK collection
1918
Oil on panel
£1,200.00
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Figures on a Path
by Henri Duhem
c. 1910
Oil on panel
£28,000.00
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Appareilleurs
by Maximilien Luce
1902
Oil on panel
£2,450.00
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The Artist’s Garden
by Marie Duhem
1909
Oil on panel
£3,300.00
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The Artists Garden
by Henri Duhem
1942
Oil on canvas
£4,950.00
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Nature morte au pot à pipe
by Jean Albert Pougny
c. 1910
Oil on canvas
£23,000.00
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Provencher’s Mill – Moret-Sur-Loing
by Pierre Eugene Montezin
c. 1910
Oil on original canvas
£5,950.00
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Nu avec des fleurs
by Georges D'Espagnat
1955
Oil on original canvas
£16,500.00
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Salon des arts menagers – 1955
by Jacques Martin-Ferrieres
1947
Oil on canvas
£5,850.00
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La Plage a Soorts-Hossegor
by Maurice Brianchon
c. 1880
Oil on canvas
£8,400.00
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Une femme au crochet
by Norbert Goeneutte
1910
Oil on board
£15,500.00
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Fillette à la poussette
by Victor Charreton
1881
Oil on canvas
£79,500.00
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Le peintre en plein air
by Charles Theophile Angrand
Best known to the general public for his paintings of Orientalist subject matter executed during frequent trips to Egypt between 1891 and 1914, Alberto Rossi was a Piedmontese painter born in Turin who depicted and interpreted his subjects with a keen sense of color and descriptive precision. This attention to detail transforms his works from simple frescoes of daily life to a careful interpretation of the “real.” His painting Arab Market (1891, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea) demonstrates these realist tendencies. Following his travels throughout Turkey, Syria, and Palestine, Rossi spent several years living in Egypt. He exhibited work in Turin, Milan, and Venice.
Rossi studied with Giani, Sampietro, Gilardi, and, Enrico Gamba, and Andrea Gastaldi at the Accademia Albertina di Torino from 1878 to 1884. Just three years after his pictorial debut, his true introduction to the public took place on the occasion of the National Exhibition of Turin in 1884 with the landscapes At the Bottom of the Valley, Portrait of a Man, and The Miners. These works qualified Rossi as a mature artist who was fully aware of the social changes taking place in the country; he placed himself among the intellectual elite dictating the taste at the time with the intent of portraying to them deliberately the world of work, of the poor, the dispossessed, the daily struggle to live, and the bitter and painful fate of the poorest workers. He sought to represent this glaring disparity using a new visual language the reflected on the socioeconomic situation at the time without diminishing it.
Museum and Gallery Holdings
Turin (Mus. Civico): Bazaar in Han Halib; Porto Corsini