View of houses on a canal in Venice by Pieretto Bianco mounted in its original carved wooden frame. Oil on panel. Painted in lively colours with reflections of the sun on the facade of the houses. Dated 18 September 1903.
Pietro Bianco Bortoluzzi (also known as Pieretto Bianco) (1875-1937), was a painter and set designer.
He studied art as a self-taught artist, inspired by the famous works of Tintoretto and Tiepolo, and then attended the Academy of Venice and Burano.
The city of Venice was among his favorite subjects. Some of his landscape works recalled the techniques of Impressionism.
In 1915, Pieretto had the opportunity to decorate the Italian pavilion at the San Francisco Exposition. The following year, he began his career as a set designer at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.
In the 1920s, after a period in Cuba, he returned to Italy to devote himself to painting and set design, as well as teaching at the Institute of Fine Arts in Parma.
Dimensions including frame: 47.5 x 57 cms.
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