Leopoldo Berthélemy de Santa María (1887-1970) - Souvenir d'Italie

- Oil on cardboard. Hand-signed.

- To contemplate this vibrant composition by Louis Barthélemy de Santa María is to let oneself be intoxicated by the chromatic pulse and the eternal aroma of Italy, where the heart fills with a luminous melancholy when recalling the perfumed breeze of orange blossoms and jasmine that descends along the terraces of Lake Maggiore or the mineral, rugged heat that crowns Etna from the Taormina viewpoints. On the painter’s palette parade the golden ochres of sunlit walls, the deep and melancholic greens of the cypresses and ancient cedars, and the pink and lilac glints of wildflowers that spill over the parapets, turning the canvas into a tactile symphony of warm pigments and blue-gray shadows that awaken the senses and suspend time in an unyielding Mediterranean idyll.

- Image dimensions without frame: 54 x 45 cm / 62 x 53 cm with exclusive custom-made frame.

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