Lot #482 - Ugo Catani
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Auction House:Gibson's Auctioneers & Valuers
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Sale Name:The Spring Auction Series - Part 1
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Sale Date:27 Nov 2022 ~ 11am (AEDT)
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Lot #:482
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Lot Description:Ugo Catani
(Italian, 1859-1944)
La Fiorentina 1880
oil on canvas
49 x 33cm
signed and dated lower right: U. Nicolai Catani 1880 -
Notes:Florentine born Ugo Catani trained at the Academy of Art in that city and in 1885 travelled with fellow Academy student, Girolamo Nerli, to Melbourne where he was to work for the next ten years, sharing studios with Nerli, Walter Withers, and Arthur Loureiro. Concerned by the conservative tendencies espoused by the Victorian Academy, Catani, along with with fellow young artists including Tom Roberts agitated to form the Australian Artists Association, with whom he exhibited and held office as a committee member. From 1895 Catani resided and worked in England before returning to his native Florence in the 1920s where he remained for the rest of his life. Catani earned his living principally as a portrait painter, and this work, La Fiorentina, is a work by the youthful Catani during his formative Florentine years. Here, an elegant young woman, with a glass in hand poses in an unmistakably Italian garden complete with antique statuary.
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Estimate:A$3,000 - 5,000
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Realised Price:
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Category:Art
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