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San Lorenzo, Italy
Franco Angeli, 1935–1988, born in Rome, Italy.
This collection includes 7 original works and 4 works "after Angeli," created between 1970 and 1988 in the Arte Povera and Italian postwar conceptualism movement. The pieces include mixed media and canvas works featuring bold symbols, abstract iconography, and socially charged motifs. The total estimated retail value of the collection is approximately $295,000.
Antonello Arena, born in 1955 in Messina, Italy, is a contemporary artist. This collection includes 34 works completed between the 2010s and 2020s, primarily within the abstract movement. The artworks span mediums such as acrylic painting, watercolor on paper, mixed media, and conceptual photography. The total estimated retail value of the collection is $95,300.
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Unknown Artists, various dates and locations, primarily Europe and the Middle East.
This collection includes over 60 works ranging from the 17th to the 20th century in a variety of genres including portraiture, orientalism, floral still life, and historic landscape. Media includes oil on canvas, etching on silver, and porcelain plaque with works framed and conserved for display. The total estimated retail value of the collection is approximately $130,000.
Asian Art, various anonymous artists, primarily East Asian.
This collection includes 9 works consisting of prints and a carved ivory plaque spanning genres of traditional Japanese and Chinese floral, mythological, and figurative subjects. Mediums include woodblock and print on scrolls and textured canvas, with multiple large-scale display pieces. The total estimated retail value of the collection is approximately $8,000.
Italy
Lidia Bachis, born in 1969 in Rome, Italy.
This collection includes 24 works created between 2004 and 2008, rooted in the Italian neo-pop and contemporary figurative expressionism movement. The pieces include acrylic on canvas and mixed media on paper, often portraying stylized women and pop cultural references with vivid contrast and humor. The total estimated retail value of the collection is approximately $58,000.
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Bruno Cassinari, 1912–1992, born in Piacenza, Italy.
This collection includes 28 works created in 1990, belonging to the late Italian modernist and figurative expressionist movements. Executed as signed and numbered lithographs, the pieces depict vibrant still lifes, portraits, and abstract compositions. The total estimated retail value of the collection is approximately $45,000.
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Camillo Cocchetti, born in 1922 in Rome, Italy.
This collection includes 16 oil on canvas works, all completed in 1970 and rooted in the realist and regional Italian landscape tradition. The paintings portray delicate countryside views, quiet towns, floral still lifes, and portraiture with subdued color palettes. The total estimated retail value of the collection is approximately $12,800.
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Senegal
Ousmane Ndiaye Dago, born in 1951 in Saint-Louis, Senegal.
This collection includes 74 photographic works completed between 1999 and 2006 in the contemporary African conceptual photography movement. The works—primarily large-format gelatin silver prints—explore identity, ritual, and embodiment through powerful staged portraiture. The total estimated retail value of the collection is over $500,000.
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SALVADOR DALI
1904 - 1989
Born 11 May, 1904 Figueres, Catalonia, Spain Died 23 January, 1989 (aged 84) Figueres, Catalonia, Spain Resting Place – Crypt at Dali Theatre and Museum, Figueres, Catalonia, Spain Nationality – Spanish Education – San Fernardo School of Fine Arts, Madrid, Spain Movement – Cubism, Dada, Surrealism Married Gala Dali (Elena Ivanovna Diakonova) (1934-1982) Notable Work : The Persistance of Memory 1931 The Temptation of St Anthony 1946 The Elephants 1948 Galatea of the Spheres 1952
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Switzerland
Maurizio Delvecchio, born in 1950 in Basel, Switzerland.
This collection includes 30 works completed between 2010 and 2015 within the neo-expressionist movement. The pieces are oil on canvas and feature glowing, densely layered depictions of New York's skyline. The total estimated retail value is approximately $97,000.
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Born in 1962 in Italy, Gost is a self-proclaimed “conceptual contemporary” artist who’s popular Stop the Time! series of mixed media works takes comparisons of the economy of older, slower times with the hyper, instant gratification of today. He once said that, “Italy is a Republic based on work.” He began his art career in 1994 with the studies of metaphysics and the geometry of color through experimentation in abstract art with little success. But, it wasn’t until 2008 where he began to gain notoriety in the art world when his fully realized conceptual work was presented at art fairs in Italy by artist Maurizio Cattelan. And in 2011 the Biennale di Venezia showcased an exhibit of his Old Economy works to critical claim. His preferred materials for creating his art are physical everyday items such as shipping documents, coins, food, beer, wine, and others. He then seals these in a block of resin in order to preserve them for future generations of the next millennia to study and appreciate. One of his well known pieces, Pluri-Bolle! Percorso Nella Old Economy (The Path of the Old Economy), is a series of paper shipping manifests from 1981 and 1982, sealed in colored resin and fused together into one solid block. His inspirations are drawn from everyday life in Italy, colors, and simple practical items of little significance, but which may one day become a vital reminder of how things once were. Gost’s other passions besides creating art are music and dancing. He currently resides in Italy.
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Giorgio Kiaris, born in 1954 in Rome, Italy.
This collection includes 24 works completed between 2008 and 2013, aligned with the contemporary lyrical abstraction and meditative symbolism movement. Executed in tempera on jute, the artworks are vibrant, densely patterned compositions that evoke cosmic and emotional landscapes. The total estimated retail value of the collection is approximately $125,000.
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Multiple Artists, 19th century to 1999, France and Italy.
This collection includes 160 works produced between the mid-1800s and the late 1990s, spanning genres such as 19th-century fashion illustration, European modernism, and postwar Italian abstraction. The collection features original lithographs, limited edition prints, mixed media, and etchings by various artists including Agnes Martin, Guttuso, Pozzati, and others. The total estimated retail value of the collection is approximately $180,000.
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Enrico Manera, born in 1947 in Rome, Italy.
This collection includes 21 works completed between 1990 and 2006 in the Italian neo-pop and contemporary art movements. The artworks feature mixed media on canvas and paper, with references to cinema, celebrity, comics, and pop culture—including several incorporating neon lighting. The total estimated retail value of the collection is approximately $50,000.
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Giuseppe Muscio, born in 1948 in Milan, Italy.
This collection includes 5 oil on canvas works created between 1990 and 2006 within the realist still life and contemporary figurative tradition. The pieces feature highly detailed renderings of flowers, glassware, and symbolic objects with luminous photographic precision. The total estimated retail value of the collection is approximately $15,000.
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Diego Palasgo, born in 1950 in Venice, Italy.
This collection includes 41 mixed media artworks created between 1990 and 2005 within the abstract expressionist and urban narrative movement. The works are primarily on canvas, using textured layering and architectural motifs inspired by historic Italian cityscapes. The total estimated retail value of the collection is approximately $150,000.
Italy
Ideo Pantaleoni, 1925–1994, born in Venice, Italy.
This collection includes 77 works created between 1946 and 1992 spanning mid-century abstraction, surrealism, and postwar expressionism. The pieces feature oil and airbrush on canvas with recurring mosaic patterns, anatomical figuration, and geometric experiments. The total estimated retail value of the collection is approximately $420,000.
Italy
AMATO PATRIARCA
1945
Amato Patriarca was born in Rome in 1945. He is a painter, sculptor, engraver, graphic designer and fashion designer. Patriarca's paintings are composed of countless small painted colored tiles. His works often influenced by American Pop Art. The subjects he focuses on range from urban crowds and bicycles, to cityscapes and fashion models He made more than 150 collective exhibitions both in Italy and abroad since the 1990s, and 60 solo exhibitions. The artist takes the viewers on a quest through urban and commercial life experiences through a surrealist lens. His work is an influx of both quiet and chaotic moments of daily occurrences, spread across the canvass, in surgical ripples of urban modulations, where everything can be lost in an instant. He currently resides and works in Milan, Italy.
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Brianza, Italy
Lorenzo Piemonti was born in 1935 in Carate, Italy not far from Milan in the area known as Brianza. He captured the attention of critics in Italy as well as abroad ever since he began to work with sculptures that find their primary matrix in numbers, and in the construction of three-dimensional progressions on the manifold variations of numerical sequences. The figurative arts are by no means alien to Piemonti’s activities (one remembers the period of the works in which he dealt with the theme of the sewing machine) but since the middle of the 1960s he has preferred to pursue a path where mental discipline and logical rigor, coupled with actual expertise, concentrate into a synthesis of which the impact is equally visual and environmental. Piemonti matured as an artist during the decade that he spent in central Switzerland, in close contact with the major protagonist’s of Swiss Concrete Art, and beginning with that time he moved in highly individual directions, as witnessed by his “Chromoplastic” works – Cromoplastici MADI – and by his series “Accelerations.” MADI is a great artistic adventure, and perhaps the only existing movement which can justify half a century of existence. MADI is more than an avant-garde movement; it has an underlying wave with several and differing off spring. It is the slow-paced growth of a tectonic plate in the history of art. Indeed, since art and environment are perceived as the fusion of two cultural phenomena, the progression and expression of these both blend in everyday life. Along with a representative of the Argentinean MADI movement, he was the founder of the Italian MIDI group (Dialectical Materialism). His works have been shown, both in solo and group exhibitions in many countries including, France, Switzerland, Serbia, United States, Hungary, Rumania and Spain. From 1965 to 1975, while living in Switzerland, he collaborated as a sculptor with Zurich’s Schlaeppischaufensterfiguren Company, creating model forms for fashion shows: his figures have been employed by fashion designers such as Balenciaga, at the Museums of Zurich and Madrid; by Yves Saint Laurent at the New York Metropolitan Museum and at the Museum of Arts and Fashion at the Paris Louvre; by Giorgio Armani at New York’s Guggenheim Museum; by Courreges and others in major cities of the world. On the International Scene, Piemonti had a one man shows at Belgrade’s National Museum and in 2003 many of his MADI works were presented at the Kilgore Law Center and the MADI Museum in Dallas, Texas. His works are also in the museums of many cities both in Italy and abroad. Lorenzo Piemont’s work has often been discussed by distinguished critics, and his work has received the attention of Vivianne Fradkoff and Anita Villa, respectively of the University of Geneva and the Breara Academy of Fine Arts – who have examined his mode of cummunication in their doctoral thesis.
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ARMALDO POMODORO
1926
Arnaldo Pomodoro was born in 1926, in Morciano, Emilia Romagna, Italy. From the mid-1940s until 1957 he served as a consultant for the restoration of public buildings in Pesaro, while studying stage design and working as a goldsmith. In 1954 Pomodoro moved to Milan, where he met artists such as Enrico Baj, Sergio Dangelo, Lucio Fontana, and others. His work was first exhibited that year at the Galleria Numero in Florence and at the Galleria Montenapoleone in Milan. In 1955 his sculpture was shown for the first time at the Galleria del Naviglio in Milan. Pomodoro visited New York in 1956 and traveled around Europe in 1958. While in Paris in 1959 he met Alberto Giacometti and Georges Mathieu, before returning to the United States where he organized exhibitions of contemporary Italian art at the Bolles Gallery in New York and San Francisco. In New York the following year Pomodoro met Louise Nevelson and David Smith. He helped found the Continuità group in Italy in 1961. In 1963, the sculptor traveled to Brazil to participate in the São Paulo Bienal, where he was awarded the International Sculpture Prize. An exhibition of his work was included in the Venice Biennale in 1964. In 1965, he was given the first of many solo exhibitions at the Marlborough galleries in New York and Rome. The artist taught at Stanford University in 1966. In 1967 Pomodoro was represented in the Italian Pavilion at Expo ’67 in Montreal, and he received a prize at the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh. In 1968, he taught at the University of California at Berkeley; in 1970, he returned to Berkeley to attend the opening of an exhibition of his work that originated there and later traveled in the United States. During the late 1960s and early 1970s he executed commissions for outdoor sculpture in Darmstadt, New York, and Milan. In 1975 a Pomodoro retrospective was sponsored by the Municipality of Milan at the Rotonda della Besana. From the mid-1970s on, Pomodoro has continued to gain popularity for his unique engagement with fundamental geometric shapes, notably the column, cube, pyramid, sphere, and disc. His massive architectonic forms suggest a continual process of self-destruction and regeneration. His work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions at major museums, including Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville in Paris (1976), University Art Museum at University of California in Berkeley (1981), Columbus Museum of Art (1984), Hakone Open Air Museum in Kanagawa (1994), Centre of Arts in Cairo (1997), and Palazzo Magnani in Reggio Emilia (2005). In 1988 Pomodoro was invited to create a one-room installation for the Venice Biennale. He is perhaps best known for his outdoor public installations and their dramatic alteration of familiar vistas, including the Urbino Cemetery (1975), Amalienborg Square in Copenhagen (1982–83), Belvedere Fortress in Florence (1984), Cortile della Pigna in Vatican City (1989–90), United Nations Plaza in New York (1996) and Palais-Royal in Paris (2002). Pomodoro has lived a simultaneous career as a set designer for productions such as Aeschylus’ Oresteia at Teatro Massimo in Palermo (1983), Gluck’s Alceste in Genoa (1987), Ahmed Shawqi’s Passion of Cleopatra in Gibellina (1989), Eugene O’Neill’s Plays of the Sea in Rome (1996), and Puccini’s Madame Butterfly in Torre del Lago (2004), among others. The Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, founded in 1995, for which Pomodoro serves as director, has been dedicated to the exhibition and funding of artists for over a decade. Pomodoro lives and works in Milan.
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Iacopo Raugei, born in 1968 in Florence, Italy.
This collection includes 11 works completed between 2007 and 2013 in the contemporary surrealist and figurative realism movement. The paintings are primarily oil on canvas and paper, portraying darkly imaginative dreamscapes with symbolic, psychological undertones. The total estimated retail value of the collection is approximately $28,000.
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Mario Schifano, 1934–1998, born in Homs, Libya.
This collection includes 3 works created between 1988 and 1997, reflecting the Italian postmodernist and pop art movements. The works are rendered in mixed media and enamel on canvas, showcasing Schifano's experimental and expressive techniques. The total estimated retail value of the collection is $6,000.
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WALTER VALENTINI
1928
Walter Valentini was born in Pergola (Pesaro). Valentini lived in Rome from 1947 to 1948 and in 1949 moved to Milan, where he had Max Huber, Albe Steiner and Luigi Veronesi as his teachers. In 1950, he moved from Lombardy to Urbino, where he lived until 1955 and where he attended the Institute of Fine Arts (Scuola del libro). It is here that he discovered the art of engraving. In this city, he also encountered Renaissance culture, which was to leave deep traces in his future activities. In these years Valentini dedicated himself primarily to research in the fields of graphics and engraving, participating in some specialized shows. Having completed his studies in 1955 he left Urbino to return to Milan, where he has lived since then. In Milan, he started off as a graphic designer, committing himself more and more to painting. He is fascinated by a geometric universe, that seems to echo De Chirico’s Metaphysics. It was precisely these strictly formal aspects that Valentini brought out in the seventies, also from the technical point of view. At the end of the decade his works were dominated by white, taking it to a dry conciseness, also expressed by the large scale of the environmental information that culminated in “Stanze del tempo” and in "Muro del Tempo", which were new developments in the series dedicated to "Città del sole" and "Città Ideale", and then in large plates of the series "Le misure, il cielo". The exhibitions became more and more frequent, as did the critical contributions and awards for his work in Italy and abroad. In 1979 the University of Massachusetts in Boston invited Valentini to a seminar as part of an exhibition of Italian artists "Birth of the work." In 1982, he won the first prize at the International Biennial of Ibiza and Listowel. In 1984, he was awarded the Grand Prix of the “X International Biennial of Graphics” of Krakow, that in 1986 organized for him an exhibition in Krakow and Torun. In 1988, he created an installation in “Sala dei monaci” in the “S. Maria in Castagnola” Abbey in Chiaravalle (Ancona) and a work on canvas " Città del Sole " for the Chamber of Labor of Reggio Emilia. In 1989, he was invited to Ljubljana, with a solo exhibition at the “XVIII International Biennial of Graphic Design”. In the same year there was an exhibition of his graphic and pictorial work in the Arengo palace in Rimini. In 1990 there were two major works for the building of Ashford Properties of Greenwich, Connecticut (USA) and the installation for the Museum of Siegburg (Germany), 1991, an installation "Lo Spazio, il Tempo" for the Harris Concert Hall in Aspen, Colorado and "Citta Ideale" to the Antaldi Montani palace, Pesaro. In 1992, he created the installation " Il Labirinto della Memoria " at the Frearte Milan. From then on there were a growing number of solo exhibitions in galleries and museums: Italian (in Milan in 1990 and in his native town of Pergola in 1993) and abroad (Boston, Stockholm, Hamburg, Cologne, New York, Aspen, Tokyo, Monaco, Siegburg, Vienna, Ankara). Between 1995 and 1996, he participated in the solo exhibition, "L'espace, le temps", in Dionne Galerie in Paris and again in 1996 in the “XXXéme Prix International Contemporary Art” of Montecarlo (Monaco), winning the "Prix Gabriel Ollivier". In 1997, he was invited to the “XLVII Biennale di Venezia”, in the "Unimplosive Art" pavilion (for the new Classic) and the Quadrennial in Rome in 1999. In 1999 and then in 2000 he exhibited in the “Italian Culture Institute” of Washington, Chicago and Vancouver: " Walter Valentini nei canti di G. Leopardi " In 2001, a large exhibition, " Walter Valentini. Sulle tracce dell’infinito" was housed in the Palazzo Magnani in Reggio Emilia. From July to September 2002, for the “52nd International Art Exhibition GB Salvi”, the city of Sassoferrato (Ancona) there was the exhibition "Il cielo di Walter Valentini" set in the spacious halls of the palace of the former Magistrates Court. In 2003 in Loano the municipality organized the event: "Loano Fontane d’Arte" (Loano Fountains of Art), in which he contributed the work "Le misure, il cielo", a fountain with bronze sculptures of cm. 300x190. In 2005, still in Loano, an exhibition at the Palazzo Doria included his work "La voce silenziosa delle stelle" and he won “Premio Città di Staffolo” (Ancona) and the 56° Prize Michetti "In & Out Artworks and environment in the Global dimension" on Francavilla al Mare (Chieti). In April 2006, the exhibition "Verso Aldebaran" curated by Marisa Bishop was inaugurated in “Art Gallery 2000 & NOVECENTO” in Reggio Emilia. On April 26, 2006, a sculpture called "Memoria" made of patinated bronze (cm 350x82x142) was inaugurated in Piazza S. Ambrogio in Milan in memory of the fallen of the Vicenza Division during the campaign of Russia in 1941-1943. In the same year, he presented the art book "Mario Luzi, Walter Valentini. Vetrinetta accidentale", published by the "Cento amici del libro", showcasing the printing plates and sheets made in hand printing presses, at the “Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea (PAC)” in Milan. He dedicated himself, furthermore, to the mosaic technique, with the help of the master artist Lino Reduzzi, carrying out works in public and private spaces. 2007, Circolo della Stampa Award, Pesaro In 2008, an exhibition of works on paper was staged in Paris at the Gallery “La Hune Brenner”. Then the “Assessorati alla Cultura della Regione Marche” of the Municipality of Ancona organized the exhibition "E ' una notte stellata. Eeco ilk progetto" in the splendid rooms of “Mole Vanvitelliana”. In the same period, a patinated bronze sculpture “Arco del Cielo” (275x35x30) was installed permanently in the “tempietto” (Vanvitelli) in the center of the wide Courtyard. A rich catalog that illustrated fifty years of his artistic career was also published by Skira on this occasion. In 2010 at the “Galleria La Steccata” in Parma there was an exhibition with works on canvas and sculptures: "Le misure, il cielo", works on tablets and sculptures ranging from 1977 to 2010. In October 2010, the “Galleria Originale”, displayed "Puntesecche, Etchings, Works on Handmade Paper, Artist Books, Sculptures” and the “Galleria Il Castello” showed the personal exhibition "Walter Valentini. Le Misure, il Cielo". Valentini has also had a significant activity in the illustration field – in fine editions and in limited editions of literary texts by classical and contemporary writers, including: Tommaso Campanella, Giacomo Leopardi, Guido Ballo, Mario Luzi, James Oreglia, Basil Reale, and Robert Walser. In 2013, he won the First Prize XXVIII International Graphic "Do Forni" organized in collaboration with the Civic Museums of Venice Foundation. He also had a busy teaching schedule, teaching the art of etching at the “Nuova Accademia di belle arti” in Milan from 1983 to 1985 where he was also the Director.
Walter Venzi, born in the mid-20th century, Italy.
This collection includes 13 abstract expressionist paintings created in the late 20th century, showcasing Venzi’s bold use of color and gesture. The works are executed in mixed media and acrylic on canvas, featuring geometric fragmentation and dynamic brushwork. The total estimated retail value of the collection is approximately $5,820.
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