This colourful oil portrait painting on canvas of a woman and child is a pleasure to the eye. Deep rich colours temp your eye towards the woman and child. A woman, head on hand, looks on patiently at a strawberry blond child. It's a wonderful vintage oil painting by a high calibre artist which would adorn any area of the house.
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Medium: Oil on canvas
Overall size: 23.5ins x 23.5ins or 60cms x 60cms (Approx)
Date: 1940's
Signed: Luigi Corbellini (1901-1968) Luigi Corbelline was an Italian artist, the fourth child in a large family of twelve, born in in Piacenza, Italy and he led an extraordinary life. He studied at the Brera Academy of Fine Art in Milan and then at the Accademia Albertina in Turin. At 19, Corbellini won an international painting contest held in Bruges, Belgium, while there he studied with Flemish masters, Van Biesbrouck and Van Acker. After three years he moved to Montmartre in Paris where he worked in the famous Bateau-Lavoir studios alongside Picasso and others. In 1924 while painting by the seaside in Deauville, Corbellini was approached by a man asking about having a portrait painted of his daughter. That man was Robert de Rothschild and this chance encounter would prove to be an extraordinary opportunity which changed the course of his career. The portrait was so successful that those invited to admire it asked Luigi to paint their wives and daughters, their names included many well known families with names like Guerlin, Vanderbilt and Rockefeller. In recognition of his talent, Boni de Castellane asked him to paint an entire stable of horses, thus propelling him to fame in the equestrian world as well. His success was such that he was able to buy an entire building in Paris's 15th arrondissement where he created artists' workshops for himself and others whom he invited to work
As Corbellini's star was rising internationally, he was commissioned to paint the young princes of Sweden as well as those of other prominent Swedish families. When the second World War broke, Corbellini painted a series (which he called 'Without Family') of children and mothers carrying bundles as they fled the horrors of the fighting. This was accomplished in the style of the Flemish masters.
After WWII, Corbellini traveled the world to paint what he saw. He was fascinated with New York and painted and exhibited there as well as in Los Angeles and San Francisco. His world travels took him afar to Hawaii, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Japan, Tahiti, Fiji, Noumea, Brazil (where he painted 17 landscapes and portraits), Venezuela, Switzerland, Spain and as far north as the Laplands.
Corbellini died unexpectedly in New York in 1968 while preparing an exhibition which was to have taken place in 1969. Since his death, he has been the subject of numerous posthumous exhibits, newspaper and magazine articles, books and scholarly papers. Knowing that New York had a special place in Corbellini's heart, as a tribute to the victims of September 11, 2001, his son offered a painting of New York as seen from the boat that brought the artist to this city in 1947 to the Italian newspaper, La Liberta.
Corbellini's works are currently held in private collections internationally and in museums such as le Musée National d'Art Moderne in the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the Musée du Jeu du Paume, also in Paris, the Musèe de Grenoble and the Art Museum of Evanston, Illinois, in the United States, and the Art Museum in Piacenza, Italy, his home town, among others.
Condition: This painting is in good condition it has minor imperfections. The frame is most likely the original, it has renovations and imperfections, particulalry at the corners with some cracking.
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