Giuseppe Pessina (Milan, 1893 – ibid., 1967)
Plain Landscape
Oil on canvas, signed, 70 x 100 cm
With frame, 94 x 123 cm
Born on December 16, Pessina was Milanese by birth and training, famous for his evocative views of the Lombard Alps and the territories of the Bergamo valleys. He studied at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, attending the courses of the portraitist Antonio Ambrogio Alciati, related to Cremona and Boldini for the pastosity of the mixture, and Giuseppe Palanti, as well as a painter also a scenographer, publicist and fashion designer dedicated to applied arts. The rich differentiation of doctrine was followed by the will to participate in the major exhibitions of the time: in 1924 the artist attended the Portrait Exhibition in Monza, which was followed by the Exhibition of Combatants. In 1930 he was among the benches of the Milanese Permanente; he also exhibited his art later, at the Navigli Exhibition and the Exhibition of the Society for Fine Arts and Permanent Exhibition of Milan (1938) with the painting Garden in Spring. The Exhibitions of the Milanese Artistic Family kept the artist busy until July 1944, when Pessina had the opportunity to organize his first solo exhibition at the Ranzini gallery in Milan.
The present painting restores airy landscapes of boundless depth, in which the bucolic aspect is surpassed by the crystalline wonder of the natural data. The triad is therefore offered as a hymn to life and the unexpected revelation of everyday beauty, rich in inspiration and dreamlike atmospheres in every smallest detail.
The object is in a good state of preservation
