Bonhams 1793 : Guglielmo Ciardi (Italian, 1842-1917) Conca di Sappada con le Terze

Conca di Sappada con le Terze
signed and dated 'G.CIARDI/1897' (lower left); inscribed with title and 'Sappada 1897' on a label attached to the reverse
oil on panel
36 x 56cm (14 3/16 x 22 1/16in).

Estimate:

£7,000 - 10,000
€8,300 - 12,000
US$ 11,000 - 15,000

Footnotes

PROVENANCE:
Prince Giovannelli, Conte Labia, his posthumous sale, Galleria Guglielmi Milano, Tuesday 6 December 1949, lot 69
Purchased from the above by the present owner's family
Private collection, Italy

EXHIBITED:
Rome, mostra dell'800, date unknown

LITERATURE:
Nico Stringa, Guglielmo Ciardi, catalogo generale dei dipinti, Treviso, 2007, no.594, p.358, illustrated.

For Ciardi, the landscape around Sappada provided the backdrop for an important series of paintings, focussing on the villages, the sloped hills, and the roofs of small houses facing the hills in the background. From 1885, Ciardi spent his summers with his family in the mountains of Trentino, the Dolomites, and in the upland plains of Asiago. These visits, and especially the light, lent a new theme to the artist's work.

Ciardi stayed in Sappada in 1897, where he produced a number of works, one of which, recorded in the Frugone collection as Paesaggio alpino, Sappada, considered as one of the best landscapes painted by the artist.