Guido Reni, Guardi and Martini in the Banca Veneta auction

Paintings including a Guido Reni and a Francesco Guardi sculptures of Arturo Martini And other artists, and then ancient furniture, rugs and chandeliers: they are the precious goods of the Bonino rod of 19 March ‘The cult of furniture’, in the context of the disposal of the Historical-artistic heritage of Veneto Banca in compulsory liquidation administrative.

The objects come from large residences ranging from Villa Gasparini Spineda Loredan to Volpago del Montello, the former long -headed villa Benetton of representation of Veneto Banca, at Palazzo Colonna Preti in Castelfranco Veneto, from British prisons in India to the manufactures of Aubusson, from the Veduso Vetrerie in Murano to the ancient collections Grimod de la Reyniere and Toraldo di Massa up to the twentieth century. Milanese mecenate Senator Borletti, from Villa Ottolenghi Wedekind, to Acqui Terme, to the Aldrovandi Montanari buildings, in Bologna, and Palazzo Balbani, in Lucca.

To stand out is a sculpture by Arturo Martini, ‘Tobiolo’ of 1934, which was designed to decorate Villa Ottolenghi Wedekind in Acqui Terme, with auction base 300 thousand euros. It is a Gesso depicting Tobia Which holds the fish of the medicament in his hands to heal his father from the blindness that earned the Veneto artist for the first time the unanimous appreciation of criticism, until the consecration to the Italian art exhibition in Paris.

Francesco Guardi is present in auction with the painting The Rio dei ‘Mendicanti at the Dominicans’ convent’ of 1785, with auction base 200 thousand euros. Coming from the Collection of Senator Borletti, nephew of Feldramaresse Josef Radetzky and founder of Upim and Rinascente, was exhibited in the great “” Exposition of the Art Italien de Cimabue to ‘Tiepolo “, in Paris, in 1935.

Another great Italian name is that of Guido Reni (1575 – 1642), of which the oil on canvas is present in auction St. Francis with auction base of 240 thousand euros. A study by Daniele Benati, one of the author’s greatest experts, considers this canvas the masterpiece of kidneys on the theme, also higher than the Louvre version. Inside a cave, St. Francis enters meditation in front of the crucifix tied with a rope on the trunk of a shrunk shrub.
Other auction works are two paintings by Francois Boucher, a large ‘Canale di Mazzorbo’ canvas by Giuseppe Ciardi and other paintings by Pietro Fragiacomo and Giuseppe Moretti.