F. Scattola, Landscape, 1927. Oil painting on plywood - hilly landscape

F. Scattola, Landscape, 1927. An oil painting on plywood depicting a hilly landscape with a felled tree trunk in the foreground within a cultivated field; in the background, a bell tower roof and mountains. 

The painting is signed F. Scattola 927 at the bottom left, in good condition, in a lacquered and silver frame. On the back of the same: 

Lenini Pavia Collection; 

Sketch of the painting exhibited in Venice in 1928, published in the catalog of this year's Venetian exhibition (XVI exhibition) see ?? no. 51 among the illustrations.

Expert opinion for the Roman expert's vote is illegible

The painting has a silver and lacquered wooden frame.

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