Table Old Genre Scene Bakery Pizzeria Milan Signed Bernardo Biancale Realism 1899

Old painting, important oil on canvas signed lower right by the Italian painter Bernardo Biancale dated 1899. Comes from the artist's studio background, this work being one of the most important and having allowed the painter to be recognized at the Milan Salon in 1899. The painting represents a genre scene where we see a Milanese family in a wood oven or pizzeria. The wife puts a loaf of bread in a wood-fired oven from which emanates the light of the fire which illuminates the different faces of the family; the father fulfilled by paternity holding the last born; the little girl at her mother's feet amazed by the flame of the wood-burning oven and finally the grandfather seated observing with perceptible pride the durability of his home. Work in the Realist style of the painter Jean-François Millet with Impressionist touches, important work on light, chiaroscuro (chiaro-scuro). Very good condition, a small restoration, see photos. Possibility of supervision. Table visible at the gallery in Toulouse. Additional photos available on request. Dimensions: 137.5cm / 105cm. Bernardo Biancale was born in Sora, Italy on September 24, 1869 - the son of the self-taught painter Pietro Biancale. He was the firstborn of ten brothers: Vincenzo, Annunziata, Domenico, Filomena, Attilio, Erminio, Restituta, Rocco and a stillborn. He had a controversial youth because, according to some, he walked around "neglected youngster, penniless in his pocket." At the age of 19 he enrolled at the Institute of Fine Arts in Naples where he was taught by Gioacchino Toma, Stanislao Lista and Licata who helped to provide the young student with an artistically stimulating but statically stimulating environment. academic. In his spare time he frequented the workshop of the carpenter Luigi Fosca, brother of the much more famous sculptor Pasquale. He soon returned to Sora after a brief period in Rome. In his hometown he came into contact with the group of Danes (Zartmann, Kroyer, Peterssen, Mayer-Ross and others) who had settled in the city. He organized his first personal exhibition in Sora in 1898 in his house and the same year he was admitted to the R. Triennale Exhibition of the Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. In 1902, he decided to settle in Paris, artistic capital of Europe. He settled in the artists' district of Montmartre and was soon joined by his brothers Attilio and Erminio. He married Marta, the daughter of a jeweler from La Rochelle, for whom he had painted some portraits in the past. The brothers all returned to Italy at the start of World War I, in time to see their mother who died suddenly the next day. In Sora he was in charge of the decoration of the Church of San Rocco and the Church of S. Andrea Apostolo di Campoli Appennino. The brothers and Marta returned to France in 1919 where Bernardo began painting on canvas and exhibiting in public. The same year, he met Antonio Valente, the brilliant scenographer and compatriot, the actor E. Coqueline He also worked occasionally with Picasso, of whom he did not share the same pictorial style and for which he was the object of Picasso's ridicule as still being an observer of a classical painting of the Neapolitan school far from the modernist evolutions with which Paris was impregnated. . From May 17 to 28, 1926, he presented in Paris an Exhibition of old and recent works at the Galerie Bernheim Jeune. The same year, he was widowed and moved with his brother Erminio to Paris for about two years. At this time, he met the young opera singer Virginia Ventre, with whom he fell in love by marrying her at the age of 60. This arouses the perplexities of his brother Erminio who worries about Bernardo's fate because of the poor health of his thirty-year-old bride. From July 9 to 24, 1943, he takes part in the exhibition organized on rue de la Paix by the section Parisian of the Union des Beaux-Arts fascistes in a Paris that was still - for a short time - occupied by the Nazis. Massimo Campigli, Giorgio De Chirico, Filippo de Pisis, M. Fumo, Gino Severini and Mario Tozzi exhibited with him in the painting section. From September 15 to 30 of the same year, he exhibited at the Suzanne Froissard gallery, rue La Boltie. His last known exhibition was at the Galerie Charpentier, rue du Faubourg Saint Honoré in 1958.