Adolfo Belimbau

(Italian, 1845-1938), woman reading on a porch in a garden, signedlower right "A Belimbau", oil on canvas, 21 x 25 in.; painted andgilt wood and composition French style frame. Original stretcher and tacking edge, crackle, canvas slightlyloose; frame with separations, abrasions and minor losses, oneapplied sticker.

Adolfo Belimbau Italian, 1845-1938 THE WHITE FOX STOLE Signed with conjoined initials and indistinctly inscribed ABelimbau... (ur) Oil on canvas 18 x 24 inches Estimate $3,000-5,000 Dirty varnish. Frame rubbing. Visible stretcher marks. Scatteredcraquelure. The dark blue and light peach pigments fluoresce underUV light - it is difficult to determine if this is restoration ororiginal pigment. The areas of the peach pigment are in her face(few spots) and in the upper right area of the background.

Adolfo Belimbau (Italian, 1845-1938) Portrait of a lady, bust length, in a white summer dress holding an open book; a walled summer garden beyond signed and inscribed 'A Belimbau/Firenze' (lower left) oil on canvas 25 x 17 7/8 in. (63.5 x 45.4 cm.) Lot Notes Belimbau shared ideas and beliefs with the Italian 'Macchiaioli' school of painters and worked in a studio with Eugenio Cecconi. Works by him can be seen in the Gallery of Modern Art, Pitti Palace, Florence.