Nello Iovine, Peasant couple in an interior Pipe smoking elderly man and elderly woman in rural costume at the table, low pastose genre painting in warm-toned color with very beautiful light, oil on canvas, signed lower right "Nello Iovine", on the reverse of the stretcher and canvas stamped several times, including "Original Painting by Artist Nello Iovine - Salerno Italy", on the canvas signed again on the reverse "Nello Iovine", very nice with brass frame plate "N. Iovine" framed, folding dimensions approx. 35 x 55 cm. Artist info: erroneously Jovine, Italian genre painter (born 1935 in Cava dei Tirreni), studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Naples with Guido Casciaro, 1954 first solo exhibition in Salerno, mounted exhibitions in Rome, Milan, Messina, Cesenatico, Casalpusterlengo and the United States, 1967 represented in the Harnot Gallery in New York, honorary member of the Columbia Academy of Saint Louis/USA, the Academy Tiberina of Rome and the Academy Salsomaggiore, active in Salerno and in Verbania on Lake Maggiore, later in Battipaglia in Campania , source: Saur "Bio-Bibliographisches Künstlerlexikon" and Internet.