18 - Guido Albanello (1952)

Guido Albanello (1952) Padua, 2003 Lithograph on paper 66.5 x 138.5 cm (image size) Date: “2003” on the plate Other inscriptions: edition number “321/600” on the front in ink; “Padua,” “Drawing by Guido Albanello” on the plate Distinctive features: dry stamp “Gilberto Padovan Editore - Vicenza” Provenance: Veneto Banca SpA in LCA Condition. Support: 95% Condition. Surface: 95% For direct WhatsApp assistance before and during the live auction: +39 346 12 999 80 // Direct assistance via WhatsApp before and during the auction: +39 346 12 999 80 This small landscape is part of a set of four—not necessarily originally conceived as a unified group—attributed to Giuseppe Bernardino Bison (1762–1844) by Cesare Lampronti, who also dedicated an in-depth entry to the work, highlighting—with the exception of the canvas in question— the connections to Canaletto-style prototypes documented by W. G. Constable and J. G. Links in “Canaletto. Giovanni Antonio Canal 1697–1768,” Oxford, 1989, nos. 95, 113, and 228 (plates 27, 29, 47). In fact, it “depicts the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore visible in the distance and, on the right, in the foreground, the Punta della Dogana. This is the only previously unpublished view, as it is not included in Canaletto’s catalog. Canaletto, in fact, had painted the same view, but from a closer distance and a different angle, with the church appearing almost centrally,” reproduced in Constable-Links, I, no. 299, II, no. 299, plate 57 (Lampronti, entry, p. 2). The attribution is considered to be subject to revision by Charles Beddington (communication of May 24, 2021), Giuseppe Pavanello (communication of May 24, 2021), and Anna Bozena Kowalczyk (communication of June 17, 2021). We thank Charles Beddington, Anna Bozena Kowalczyk, and Giuseppe Pavanello for their support in cataloging the work.