A painting made around 1950, showing a composition of flowers, signed U. Montini

Vase Montini Umberto. A painting created around 1950, depicting a composition of flowers, signed at the bottom left by U. Montini, by the Milanese artist Umberto Montini (Milan 1897 - Busto Arsizio 1978).

The work is painted in oil on canvas, with quick and energetic brushstrokes, often textured, but always intense, in bright colors. The painting is fresh and decorative, featuring a bouquet composed of common and multicolored flowers, daisies, poppies, gladioli, gathered in a chaotic vase. The painting is in perfect condition, in a modern frame. 

Umberto Montini (Milan 1897 - Busto Arsizio 1978) Employed at a young age in a lithographic laboratory due to the difficult economic situation of his family, he attended evening courses in Brera until 1920, when he was able to enroll in the Academy, where he graduated in painting in 1924 under the guidance of Ambrogio Alciati. From that moment, he exhibited continuously at the Milanese Permanente exhibitions and Lombard unions, gaining worldwide fame by participating in the Venice Biennale (1928, 1930), the exhibition in Barcelona in 1929, and the Paris Universal Exhibition in 1937; in 1938 and 1956, he also tested the South American market, traveling to Peru and Ecuador. A friend of the brothers Ernesto and Leonardo Bazzaro, he preferred landscape painting and Milanese views captured with quick brushstrokes in the misty atmosphere of winter days. Significant in this regard are four works preserved in the Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Milan, one of which, Day of Fog, won the Sallustio Fornara award at the Permanente in 1935. Four years earlier, the artist received the Mylius Prize for a historical landscape at the Brera exhibition.

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