XIX
Oil on cardboard 37 x 27,5 cm
Excellent state of preservation with coeval frame
The work is sold accompanied by a certificate of authenticity
Son of a silk merchant from Lyon and a Milanese woman, Eugenio Gignous, born in Milan in 1850, enrolled in the ornamentation course at the Brera Academy in 1865, transferring the following year to the landscape school held by Luigi Riccardi .
The contacts established with the protagonists of Scapigliata painting in Milan, Tranquillo Cremona and Daniele Ranzoni, led him to take up their games of colour, in which small overlapping touches, applied with nervously interrupted taps, enrich the chromatic effect.
His painting was then influenced by the leader of Lombard Naturalism Filippo Carcano, who led Gignous to Lake Maggiore in 1879. Having settled with his family in Stresa in 1887, his production was therefore concentrated on portraying landscapes of the lake, especially during spring and autumn, while in the summer, fleeing from the heat, the painter moved to the mountains, on the Mottarone above or in nearby Ossola. He also makes frequent trips to Venice and Liguria.
The years from 1887 to 1906 constitute the period of greatest interest not only for the paintings of Lake Maggiore, but also for the contacts established with other painters such as Uberto Dell'Orto, Leonardo Bazzaro, Moses Bianchi, Achille Formis.
Eugenio Gignous died in Stresa in 1906.

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