19th-Century Works of Art: Featuring Works from The Muriel S. and Noah L. Butkin Collection Sold to Benefit the Cleveland Museum of Art
19th-Century Works of Art: Featuring Works from The Muriel S. and Noah L. Butkin Collection Sold to Benefit the Cleveland Museum of Art
Rubens Santoro
Along the Canal
Lot Closed
May 24, 03:14 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Rubens Santoro
Italian
1859 - 1942
Along the Canal
signed Rubens Santoro (lower right)
oil on canvas
canvas: 16 ½ by 13 in.; 41.9 by 33 cm
framed: 23 ¼ by 19 ¾ in.; 59 by 50.1 cm
James Elverson, Jr
His sale: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, 30 January 1930, lot 6
While Rubens Santoro is most often recognized for his depictions of the city’s most majestic structures on the Grand Canal, he sometimes turned a more intimate eye onto quieter streets and less-traveled waterways. These overlooked neighborhoods afforded him the opportunity to develop a new visual vocabulary of daily Venetian life: sheets drying in the breeze; open shudders; subtle earth tones of crumbling building plasters; humble gondolas; and passing pedestrians. This is the Venice of the Venetians, who live every day amongst the magic of the city—unseen by many, yet sensitively recorded by Santoro’s brush.
Santoro was a pupil of Domenico Morelli at the Academy of fine art in Naples. He exhibited in Naples, Turin, Venice, Rome and abroad including London and at the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris where he received an honorable mention in 1896. He specialized almost exclusively in quotidian scenes of Venice.