Le Rose - Gioacchino Galbusera

(Milano 1870 - Lugano 1944)
Cm 48x76 | In 18.90x29.92
Oil on canvas
Known as Gioachino, Milanese but Luganese by adoption having married Elisa Pereda, daughter of Luganese sculptor Raimondo. In Milan he attended the Brera Academy under the guidance of Giuseppe Mentessi. Brief and scanty news about him. He enjoyed in our latitudes a good reputation. He was a master in painting views of Lugano and the San Bernardino, in flowers and still lifes. An amiable painter coveted by bourgeois patrons, he can be found in many Ticino salons. His canvases, even repetitive ones, which he executed at the San Bernardino and then also sold to tourists, do not seem immune to a slight pointillism (Stagno in Morges). His painting was always, even with the new century, steeped in nineteenth-century culture. He executed, among other things with deft skill and echoes of Art Nouveau, screens and mirror cabinets. One of these mirrors, with putti and floral ornamentation, was on display in a London Railways waiting room. In 1897 he painted on canvas, for a London palace, a ceiling with a blue sky all adorned with cupids and cherubs. He exhibited at the Permanente in Milan.