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"Marine with boats and characters" - Oil on canvas by Leonardo Roda dating back to the early 1900s, signed on the lower right. RODA LEONARDO. Born in Racconigi in 1868, died in Turin in 1933. A pupil of Marco Calderini, he participated in various exhibitions in Turin and Milan. He was a faithful, tireless reproducer of the Matterhorn. «In the last decade his brush stroke got tired and he also suffered morally. Six months before he died he managed to deliver eighteen commission paintings for a Roman house of art: but it was his last effort » (Dragone). Some of his works: Raggio di sole; Nomadic life; Quiet corner, purchased by the Society for Fine Arts of Turin in 1914.Period: Early 1900s Measures: In frame H 79.5 x L 109.5 x P 5 / Canvas H 70 x L 105.5 cm
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"The black and white cat" - Oil on tablet by Lorenzo Delleani dated 11.9.82 DELLEANI LORENZO. Born in Pollone (Biella) on January 17, 1840, died in Turin on November 13, 1908. He studied at the Accademia Albertina, a pupil of Gamba for drawing, then of Carlo Arienti and Andrea Gastaldi, graduating in 1862 when he had already made his debut at the Promoter of Fine Arts in 1855 and established itself there in 1860 with an episode of the siege of Ancona. According to the romantic interests of his time, he initially dedicated himself to historical re-enactment painting, to arrive at more spontaneous research on the truth with interior studies, environment and views of Genoa, Venice and the surroundings of Turin, as well as Pollone and Paris. At the Turin national exhibition in 1880 the Ministry of Grace and Justice bought him the vast canvas Caterina Grimani Dogaressa, while critics showed a preference for "In the garden". The following year, in Milan, alongside Sebastiano Veniero who presents the prisoners of Lepanto, he exhibited Quies, which earned him numerous acclaim, such as to induce him to abandon historical subjects to devote himself to the landscape, establishing himself for its genuineness and brightness. In addition to the large canvases destined for the numerous national and international exhibitions, in which he participated in Italy and abroad, Delleani linked his name to a vast pictorial production made almost exclusively on small panels, "among the most convincing things of Italian landscape 'age' (Lavagnino). Among his disciples we remember: Giuseppe Bozzalla, Sofia di Bricherasio, Giuseppe Buscaglione, Luigi Cantò, Giuseppe A. Levis, Angela Meucci, Camilla Bergonzio, Emilia Ferrettini Rossotti, Enrico Reycend. Delleani was in Paris and Bern in 1878, in Holland in 1883, Switzerland in 1892, but for his paintings he aimed above all at the motifs that nature and the environment could suggest to him during his periodic stays in the Biellese, in Venice, in Rome, on the Riviera , in Monferrato.Period: 11 September 1882 Measurements: In frame H 44.5 x W 55 cm / Tablet H 26 x W 37 cm
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"Mountain landscape" - Oil on tablet by Lidio Ajmone. Signed and dated 1939 in the lower left corner.
LIDIO AJMONE Born in Coggiola (Biella on 10 April 1884, died in Andezzeno near Chieri on 29 September 1495. He attended the Albertina Academy in Turin and was later a pupil of Vittorio Cavalleri. He always exhibited at the promoter, at the Circolo Artisti e Amici dell ' Art of Turin and sometimes in Milan, Genoa, Casale and Novara. He took part in the great war as captain of the 3rd Alpini, was wounded and decorated. In 1925 he went to Somalia with Governor De Vecchi and carried out several works there Interesting. He portrayed the Sovereigns of Italy, Benito Mussolini and the Duke of Abruzzi. At the Civic Museum of Turin you can find his painting: Neve. He was a good colourist and always made himself admired as a sensitive landscape painter. it was organized at the Circolo degli Artisti in March 1946. There were about forty works among the most significant from the various periods of artistic activity, which left good African and Rhodes impressions.
Period: 1939
Measurements: In frame H 54 x L 64 cm / Tablet H 35.5 x L 45 cm