Still Life Oil Painting by Piero Sansalvatore

A fine oil on wooden panel still life by Piero Sansalvatore 1892-1955. The work shows a large green glass vase filled with dark red, or copper coloured flowers, possibly marigolds. The technique is wonderfully free and energetic with use of thick impasto paint applied with a palette knife. The work is in excellent condition and has been professionally cleaned. The frame is the original and is painted with a slight silvered finish, it is likely it was reused and adapted by the artist. The piece is signed and dated along the junction of the table and wall, inscribed directly into the paint, ‘P Sansalvatore 1950’.

Piero Sansalvatore 1892 to 1955 was an artist, musician, and writer, born in Turin, Italy. In 1930 he visited London for an exhibition of his paintings at the Claridge Gallery and remained in England eventually becoming a naturalised English citizen. In London he developed a different technique of painting in which he applied paint directly to small panels of bare wood with a palette knife. Between 1930 and 1933 he spent time in Glasgow and Edinburgh and his paintings of Scotland were shown at the M'Lure Gallery in 1932 and at the gallery of James Connell in Glasgow in May 1934. Examples of his etchings were reproduced in Fine Prints of the Year in 1932 and 1933. He also held an exhibition of paintings at the Fine Art Society in London in December 1938 and four of his pictures of the silver Jubilee celebrations were bought by Queen Mary and remain in the Royal Collection. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, Fine Art Society, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, and Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. His work was given one-man shows at venues including Fine Art Society, 1938, and in the provinces. The Tate Gallery archive holds his pencil self-portrait.

This work is a great example of this interesting artist’s work and is ready to hang.

Overall sizes in inches including frame: 13 ¾ by 15 ¼

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