Rinaldo (Rome 1920)
Rinaldo, born in 1920, often incorporated stilllifes in his earlier depictions of interiors. In the early 1950s, he began to introduce stilllife as the central motif of his paintings. Rinaldo executed a number of canvases in which he experimented with different formal arrangements of vases of flowers, fruit and various other everyday objects on a table. In the present work the artist did not blend the flowers with the tablecloth pattern, as he often did in his stilllifes. Instead, he has placed an ashtray next to the vase, the object almost posing as a link with the vase. By blending the expressive spontaneous brushstrokes of the bouquet with the circular shapes of the vase and the ashtray, the artist plays with our vision, leading our eye back and forth within the composition.
Still Life of Tulips
30cm x 40cm (11.75 inches x 15.75 inches)
This wonderful Oil on Canvas, depicting a vase of Red Tulips, is by the Italian Artist Rinaldo, a Still Life painter who achieved considerable reputation in the mid-fifties in Italy. The canvas is in its original stretcher which bears the Gallery Seal in Rome (Via Margutta) where the Artist exhibited extensively at the time. The Artist signed the canvas at the back Rinaldo and dated it 1952 (lower right
Acquired by a Private Collector in Italy
