ARTIST: Romeo Costetti (Italian, 1871 - 1957)
TITLE: Two Ladies on the Bench
MEDIUM: oil on board
CONDITION: Missing a few flakes of paint. No visible inpaint under UV light. Framed under the glass. Wear to frame.
ART SIZE: 10 x 13 inches / 25 x 33 cm
FRAME SIZE: 18 x 21 inches / 45 x 53 cm
SIGNATURE: lower right
NAME VARIANTS: Romeo Cosetti
CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online
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BIOGRAPHY:
Brother of Giovanni, Romeo completed his first studies in Bologna, where he had moved with his family; in 1886 he moved to Naples to follow D. Morelli's drawing courses. Moving to Paris in 1899, he was in contact with the avant-gardes and in the following years he traveled to various European countries, bringing back influences from Nordic symbolism (La Primavera, Viale delle Cascine, both in Reggio nell'Emilia, Civic Museums). Author above all of portraits (Portrait of Signora M., presented at the Venice Biennale in 1905; Portrait of Giovanni Costetti, presented in Florence in 1906), in the first decades of the twentieth century he linked himself to the Roman Secession environment, often preferring the technique of monotype.