Vincenzo Irolli (Italian, 1860-1945)
THE PROPERTY OF AN OREGON FAMILY
Vincenzo Irolli (Italian, 1860-1945)

La Pescatrice

Details
Vincenzo Irolli (Italian, 1860-1945)
La Pescatrice
signed 'V. Irolli' (lower left)
oil on panel
19¾ x 12¾ in. (50.2 x 32.4 cm.)
Provenance
with Thurber Fine Arts, Chicago.
A. Howard, Portland, Oregon by 1954 by whom given to
Margaret Wagner Lynch, Portland, Oregon, 1963.
Thence by descent to the present owners, 2002.

Lot Essay

Vincenzo Irolli, one of the most beloved Neapolitan artists of the 19th Century, made his mark on the international artistic community with a unique style characterized by his vibrant use of color and loose and spontaneous brushwork. Having shown remarkable talent even as a child, he went on to produce a large body of work whose focus was the true depiction of the everyday life and struggles of the 'popolane' or working class. The present work is a wonderful example of this vibrancy of color and brushwork working in complete harmony to depict a solitary fisher girl on a sunny day.

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