Master Paintings Part II
Master Paintings Part II
Property from a Private Collection, New York
The Pseudo-Guardi
A pair of still lifes of roses, anemones, and other flowers in bronze urns, resting on stone ledges
Lot Closed
January 30, 05:26 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection, New York
The Pseudo-Guardi
Active in Venice at the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th centuries
A pair of still lifes of roses, anemones, and other flowers in bronze urns, resting on stone ledges
a pair, both oil on canvas, ovals
each canvas: 26 1/4 by 20 5/8 in.; 66.7 by 52.3 cm.
each framed: 30 by 24 5/8 in.; 76 by 62.4 cm.
In their spontaneity and handling, the present pair come stylistically close to a group of floral still lifes attributed by Antonio Morassi, and later by Giuseppe Pilo, to Francesco Guardi.1 Although flowers feature prominently in a number of Guardi's figure paintings, concrete records of his still life production remain obscure. As such, the name Pseudo-Guardi, first used by Luigi Salerno, has therefore been more recently employed to designate the as yet unidentified author or authors of this group, working in the orbit and studio of Guardi.2
1. A. Morassi, Guardi, I dipinti, Venice 1973, vol. I, pp. 499–500, vol. II, figures 911–19, and G. Pilo, Francesco Guardi, I paliotti, Milan 1983.
2. L. Salerno, La natura morta in Italia, Rome 1984, pp. 314–15.