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

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

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

Umberto Montini (Milan 1897 - Busto Arsizio 1978) was employed at a lithographic laboratory at a young age due to his family's difficult financial situation. He attended evening courses in Brera, and by 1920 he was able to enroll at 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 and in Lombard trade unions, gaining international fame by participating in the Venice Biennale (1928, 1930), the Barcelona exhibition in 1929, and the Paris Universal Exposition in 1937; in 1938 and 1956, he also explored the South American market, traveling to Peru and Ecuador. A friend of brothers Ernesto and Leonardo Bazzaro, he favored landscape painting and Milanese views captured with quick brushstrokes in a misty winter atmosphere. Notable among his works are four pieces 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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