Mauro Gandolfi (Bologna 1764-1834), Testa d'uomo... Lot n° 18

This melancholic image of an old man is characterized by the immediacy of the writing, frank and rapid in the sign and in the drawing up of the watercolour, significant of a rare ability to communicate with power the human truth of the character, whose feeling, of those who have lived and known a lot, is given back by the intensity of the gaze, fixed on distant memories. (...)" Expertise Donatella Biagi Maino