Artist: Teonesto Deabate (Turin, 1898 - 1981)
Dimensions: 44 x 36 cm (artwork), 64 x 55 cm (with frame)
Materials: Mixed media on pressed cardboard
Refined artwork created with mixed media on pressed cardboard by the renowned Turin artist Teonesto Deabate. The painting depicts a picturesque Ligurian view, characterized by typical rural architecture and lush Mediterranean vegetation, dominated by a maritime pine.
The work is distinguished by its textured brushstrokes and a color palette playing on warm earthy and ochre tones, balanced by the greens of nature and the gray-blue of the clear sky. The composition reflects the artist's landscape sensibility, capable of capturing the light and atmosphere of the coast with formal synthesis and compositional rigor.
The artwork can be attributed to the artist's mature period, fitting within the tradition of Italian figurative art of the 20th century, with particular attention to the poetic rendering of the landscape.
The painting is signed lower left and dated 1946, a year that attests to its historical placement in the immediate post-war period.
The artwork dates to the mid-20th century (1946).
The condition is good; the painting is presented in a contemporary wooden frame that enhances its display value.