Guglielmo Baldassini (1885-1952) - Paesaggio

Guglielmo Baldassini, landscape, born in Genoa in 1885, attended the Brera Academy in Milan for a three-year period. He soon began to paint and study on his own, dedicating himself, in particular, to landscape and the seascape. He began to exhibit in various national and international shows, including numerous exhibitions at the Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts of Genoa. He maintained close ties with the Milanese artistic world and, in 1913, one of his paintings, presented at the celebratory exhibition of the fortieth anniversary of the Milanese Artistic Family, was purchased by the King of Italy. Baldassini was also an excellent etcher, and this technique gave him a certain notoriety. From 1916 he began to exhibit in various European capitals: London, Paris, etc. He later went to Tokyo, where some of his etchings were bought for the Imperial Museum. Still with this technique, he produced seaports and town views. In 1915 he became an honorary member of the Brera Academy. In 1922 he participated in the Florentine Spring Exhibition with the works The Little Church of San Biagio in Friuli and Life in the Port of Genoa. From about 1930 he painted again in Genoa, then began a fruitful and long exhibiting period in South America, where, in fact, a large portion of his artistic production is dispersed. Guglielmo Baldassini can be considered a great marine painter in the 19th-century tradition, whose work appears updated by the very effective use of a tactile brushwork and a chromatic play of lights and transparencies that render some of his sea-themed works unique. His works are held in important public collections in Italy and abroad, as well as in prestigious private collections. It measures 44 cm by 34 cm and is an oil on cardboard; 58 by 47 with frame.