Giovanni Müller Oil Painting "Spring in Giona (Ticino)"

Item Details

Giovanni Müller (Swiss, 1890 – 1970)
Frühling bei Giona (Tessin) (“Spring in Giona (Ticino)”), mid 20th century
Oil painting on canvas
Signed to the lower right
Titled to the verso
Includes an Italian exhibition catalog of the artist’s woodcuts from the Galeria Piccinni

Giovanni Müller was a Swiss artist and illustrator working in the early 20th century in Zurich. Though he was primarily a printmaker, his paintings show a strong influence of Fauvism in their colorful depictions of rural landscapes. In 1952, Müller was a founding member of XYLON, an international society of wood engravers and relief printers.

Condition

- cracks to the paint particularly throughout the sky; impact crack to the upper center with a few chips of paint loss; canvas somewhat loose from stretchers notably to the left edge; unpainted areas of the canvas visible to the left and right edges; holes to the wood of the frame to the lower left and to the upper right corners; abrasions and some finish loss to the frame; metal lamp remnant attached to the upper edge of the frame to the verso.

Dimensions

- measures frame; sight measures 25.75" W x 22.0" H.

Item #

ITMG269121