Luigi Rosati (1937) - Case innevate

Artist: Luigi Rosati (Rome, 1937) — attributed / signed
Nationality: Italian

Title: «Snowy Landscape with Houses» (descriptive title, the work has no original title)

Year: second half of the 20th century (roughly dated to the 1970s–1990s for style and materials)

Technique: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 70 cm × 50 cm (unframed canvas). Canvas depth: 2 cm.

Signature: signed bottom right «Luigi Rosati» with a brush, in dark color on the white snow background.

Subject: nocturnal view of a snow-covered village. Deep blue sky, houses in warm colors (brick red, ochre, straw yellow) tightly packed together, snow cover in the foreground with textured brushstrokes, stylized bare trees with rapid and nervous strokes. Lyrical expressionist style, coherent with the artist's mature landscape production.

Edition: unique work (not multiples or graphics)

Provenance: private collection, Tuscany (Italy)

Documentation: no certificate of authenticity enclosed. The attribution is based on the autograph signature and on stylistic comparison with documented works by the artist (Bottega Gollini Galleries of Imola, Firenze Art, Daniele Squaglia).

Conditions: good overall condition. The canvas is stretched on the original frame, with no tears or color loss. Slight signs of time compatible with the age of the work. No restorations recorded.

Frame: unframed work, on a wooden frame.

Shipping: the work will be shipped on a stretcher (not rolled), packed with rigid cardboard, bubble wrap and protective corner pieces. Shipping with tracked and insured courier.

Biographical notes about the artist: Luigi Rosati was born in Rome in 1937. He studied at the Liceo Artistico and the Academy of Fine Arts of Rome, attending the studio of Giovanni Omiccioli where he learned the mastery of color. In 1960 he won first prize at the International En Plein Air Painting Competition EPT of Formia. Between 1967 and 1977 he periodically worked in London, Paris and Brussels, receiving praise from international critics (Gérard Brami, Daniel Meleng, Richard Browns). His painting is characterized by generous brushwork and a formal synthesis of expressionist origin, which transcends descriptiveness to achieve a lyrical and atmospheric rendering of the landscape.