Estimate: € 30,000.00 - € 50,000.00
Starting bid: € 19,000.00
Starting bid: € 19,000.00
1898
Oil on canvas
285 x 185 cm
Signed lower right
It was precisely Delleani who had been asked by the Executive Committee of the 1898 Exhibition to paint four large canvases to decorate the peristyle through which, from the main entrance to the exhibition, one could enter the rooms dedicated to the Fine Arts.
The Fine Arts exhibition, which, as part of the larger exhibition event, was held at the Valentino from May to October, once again brought hundreds of Italian artists to Turin. And it was almost as a tribute to them that Delleani thought of painting in the four decorative canvases as many plastic glimpses that constituted a kind of ideal synthesis of Italy: the sharp pyramid of Monviso, a ¿laughing¿ strip of Lake Garda with the Tyrolean Alps in the distance, a luminous Sicilian marina with Taormina in the background and a sunny view of the Tiber, flowing through the golden green meadows beyond which the eternal city looms, raising the domes of its sumptuous basilicas into the sky.
PROVENANCE:
Private collection, Biella
EXHIBITED:
May - October 1898, Esposizione Nazionale, Turin
LITERATURE:
A. Dragone, Delleani. La vita, l'opera e il suo tempo, vol. 2, Cassa di Risparmio di Biella, 1973, n. 1335, p. 217
AA.VV., L'arte all'Esposizione Nazionale del 1898, Turin, 1898, pp. 19-21
Oil on canvas
285 x 185 cm
Signed lower right
It was precisely Delleani who had been asked by the Executive Committee of the 1898 Exhibition to paint four large canvases to decorate the peristyle through which, from the main entrance to the exhibition, one could enter the rooms dedicated to the Fine Arts.
The Fine Arts exhibition, which, as part of the larger exhibition event, was held at the Valentino from May to October, once again brought hundreds of Italian artists to Turin. And it was almost as a tribute to them that Delleani thought of painting in the four decorative canvases as many plastic glimpses that constituted a kind of ideal synthesis of Italy: the sharp pyramid of Monviso, a ¿laughing¿ strip of Lake Garda with the Tyrolean Alps in the distance, a luminous Sicilian marina with Taormina in the background and a sunny view of the Tiber, flowing through the golden green meadows beyond which the eternal city looms, raising the domes of its sumptuous basilicas into the sky.
PROVENANCE:
Private collection, Biella
EXHIBITED:
May - October 1898, Esposizione Nazionale, Turin
LITERATURE:
A. Dragone, Delleani. La vita, l'opera e il suo tempo, vol. 2, Cassa di Risparmio di Biella, 1973, n. 1335, p. 217
AA.VV., L'arte all'Esposizione Nazionale del 1898, Turin, 1898, pp. 19-21