MARTÍN RICO | The Church of San Geremia and The Palazzo Labia, Venice

UK: Greenford Park Warehouse

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December 12, 03:10 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Italian Private Collection

MARTÍN RICO

Spanish

1833 - 1908

The Church of San Geremia and The Palazzo Labia, Venice

signed Rico lower left

oil on canvas

74 by 45cm., 29 by 17¾in.

framed: 99 by 69.5cm., 39 by 27¼in.

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Purchased in Spain by the present owner

Rico made his name and fortune capturing Venice's elegant architecture and magical setting, his works celebrating the grand facades of the city's most majestic structures along the Grand Canal and its surrounding waterways. He first travelled to Italy in 1872 in the company of the painter Mariano Fortuny. His fascination with light soon led Rico to Venice where he quickly established himself as a hugely able painter of the city's finest views, in what was a very competitive genre undertaken by other nineteenth-century artists including Rubens Santoro.