Bruno Guaitamacchi

La Via Emilia a Bologna - Large Northern Italy Italian City Scape Oil Painting

A superb mid 20th century French naïf oil on canvas depicting the Palais de Justice in Marseille, by Jean Cha. Excellent quailty and condition work, signed lower right and presented ...

A beautiful mid 20th century French naïf oil on canvas wooded landscape by Charles Pincon-Maricourt. The artist is featured in Anatole Jakovsky's ''Peintres Naïfs'', which is conside...

A very beautiful early 20th century oil on canvas landscape depicting a lake with hills beyond, by Frederick John Widgery. The location is lik...

A very beautiful 20th century French naïf oil on canvas depicting the house of Madame and Monsieur Gasgard at Place de la Republique, Somme, France, by André Demonchy. The work is s...

GOVERT VAN EMMERIK (1808-1882) View on the Governor’s Palace in Paramaribo, Surinam Signed and dated 1856 Oil on canvas, 70 x 90 cm In large gilt...

Abraham Johannes Romswinckel (1810-1856) Self-portrait in Indonesian landscape Inscribed Abr. Joh. Romswinckel, geb. Batavia 17 Oct. 1810, overl...

Very Large Landscape Oil on canvas by Henry Bright, Signed by the artist. Exceptional size. Great Wall filler by this accomplished artist...

A sawah landscape, Sumatra Signed and dated 'Sonnega '54' (lower right), and annotated 'Voor Jan de Bas 1-1-1970 / R de Bas' (on the reverse) oil on canvas, 50,5x60,5 cm Provenance: - Collection Pieter de Bas (1909-1979) Mr de Bas was head of the MULO school and acting head of the HBS school in Medan. Thence by descent to the present owner. Exhibited: - Hotel de Boer, Medan 1954, where acquired by the first owner. The light I observed everywhere was of a special quality, fluorescent blue, shone from nowhere but radiated from every point, oddly with great depth and intensity. The light in an entirely different dimension came from nowhere and went nowhere shimmering with the glow of a bright blue jewel. The most important thing I discovered was of being omnipresent and able to understand everything at the same time, yes I could fathom creation completely. Auke Sonnega, born March 9, 1910 in Leeuwarden, known as the painter, primarily of young Balinese men and women. Originally raised in the reformed denomination, the parents of Auke apparently practised theosophy and their children, including Auke were taught these principles. The talent for drawing revealed itself at an early stage which in 1926 lead to a 4-year study of textile design at the Academy for Art and Craft in Amsterdam. He completed the academy in 1930 and worked in a carpet factory in Twente until 1934 and then followed in his sister Aafje’s footsteps leaving the Netherlands to go to the Dutch East Indies where in 1935 he started working as a graphic designer with an advertising bureau in Batavia. He was able to travel through Java and Bali on the motorbike that he brought with him from Europe, and was paid for his travelogue, enhanced with his own photo’s which appeared in several Dutch newspapers and magazines. In the 1930’s two Europeans, Walter Spies and Rudolf Bonnet...