Antonio Cirino 'Peonies Galore' Flower Still Life Impressionism Oil Painting - Listed Rhode Island Artist

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This is just a great original piece. I have never owned an Antonio Cirino painting in the past. 99 out … Read more This is just a great original piece. I have never owned an Antonio Cirino painting in the past. 99 out of 100 paintings I see by the artist are these incredible landscape paintings that always sell for a lot of money - no matter the size. Actually this is the first time I have ever seen a still life painting by the artist. For those not familiar with the artist, I have included his biography below. This is one of the finest 20th Century impressionist still life paintings I have come across. A large oil on canvas measuring 30 x 25 inches. Signed lower right corner. Painting is in outstanding as painted condition. Vibrant colors. I really like the striped table cloth below the flowers as compared to the parrot and feather background. Just a really great composition by one the better American Impressionist painters of the 20th Century. Original linen lined gold frame is complimentary and ready to hang. A great presentation. To make this work even better it comes with 2 original labels on the back of the stretcher. One is his biography one sheet. and the other is a smaller label that has some handwritten notes. One says "Permanent Collection" and the other is his signature in pen. I am wondering if this piece actually was part of the artist's permanent collection. Being that his still life paintings are so rare, perhaps this was one that he did for himself. It also has the a pen written title on the stretcher. Really a museum quality work by the artist. Frame measures 35 1/4 x 30 1/4 inches.

For those not familiar with the artist his biography from askart reads: "Born in Italy, March 23, 1888, Antonio Cirino came to the United States as a child of three. He had talents for painting, writing, teaching, and designing jewelry. In the 1920s, he discovered Rockport, Massachusetts, and began living there in the summers and in Providence, Rhode Island the remainder of the year. He attended the Rhode Island School of Design from 1904-1909 and later taught there. He received a Bachelors of Science Degree from Columbia Teachers College in 1912. He studied art in Italy and was a pupil of Arthur Wesley Dow. Antonio Cirino was a founding member of the Rockport Art Association. Cirino designed a 14 karat gold key to the city of Providence, Rhode Island, which was awarded to General Amardo Diaz, for Italy's efforts in the First World War, 1914-1918. He published a book on jewelry design in 1939 and completed a thirteen volume compilation of illustration in America (1855-1912) with a forward which he wrote. This book was privately bound. Cirino joined the Salmagundi Club of New York City in 1926 as a non-resident Artist Member. He actively contributed to the exhibitions until his death, November 28, 1983. He was a committed plein-air painter, loving the feeling of working directly from nature. He bequeathed the majority of his work to the Rockport Art Association, and it became the cornerstone of their growing collection. Many fine examples of Cirino's work were bequeathed to the Salmagundi Museum as well. " See less