GA039 | Australian & International Art

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ANDREI GAVRILOVICH LYSENKO
(RUSSIAN, 1916-2000)
The Student
oil on canvas
signed lower centre: A. A
signed and titled verso in Cyrillic:
A Lysenko Student
70.5 x 66.5cm
$1,000–1,500
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JOHANNES J PALING
(DUTCH, 1844-1892)
The Newborn
oil on panel
signed lower right: Joh. J. Paling
44.5 x 33cm
$1,000–1,500
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UGO CATANI (1859-1944)
La Fiorentina 1880
oil on canvas
signed and dated lower right:
U. Nicolai Catani 1880
49 x 33cm
$5,000–8,000
NOTE
Florentine born Ugo Catani trained at the
Academy of Art in that city and in 1885 travelled
with fellow Academy student, Girolamo Nerli, to
Melbourne where he was to work for the next
ten years, sharing studios with Nerli, Walter
Withers, and Arthur Loureiro. Concerned by
the conservative tendencies espoused by the
Victorian Academy, Catani, along with fellow
young artists including Tom Roberts agitated
to form the Australian Artists Association,
with whom he exhibited and held office as a
committee member.
From 1895 Catani resided and worked in
England before returning to his native Florence
in the 1920s where he remained for the rest of
his life.
Catani earned his living principally as a portrait
painter, and this work, La Fiorentina, is a work
by the youthful Catani during his formative
Florentine years. Here, an elegant young woman,
with a glass in hand poses in an unmistakably
Italian garden complete with antique statuary.
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