Cesare Gheduzzi

Oil painting on plywood, signed C. Gheduzzi. Checked with a Wood's lamp, it shows no restoration. Measurements: work size 42x33 cm, with frame 51x60 cm. CESARE GHEDUZZI, son and brother of painters, self-taught, stimulated by the comparison with his father Ugo and his brother Giuseppe. After spending the first years of his life in Crespellano, he moved to Turin in 1900 where his father dedicated himself to the preparation of the scenography of the Teatro Regio. Here he met Carlo Follini, of whom he would be a student and whose teaching would be decisive for his maturation as an artist to the point, at times, of making certain undue "promotions" of his works to the more appreciated signature of the Master credible. However, in the large production of landscape and marine painter, even in the evidence of an always traceable and recognizable Follinian matrix, the distinctive, well-formed characters of an autonomous personality can be identified: similar to those of Follini, the stylisms of small figures and luminous highlights, but in Gheduzzi now resolved with dryness and cold colors, without expressive intentions that the immediacy of an enjoyable rendering of the subject. Cesare Gheduzzi will frequent the Ligurian Riviera like his master, creating large sea views, coastal landscapes and fishermen at work, which he reproduces with fidelity and elegance. In 1917 one of his works was present at the exhibition of the Società Promotrice alle Belle Arti and at the Circolo degli Artisti of Turin and in 1942 he presented some of his works at the Galleria Civica di Arte Moderna of Turin. After his death, several posthumous exhibitions were held, especially in Turin and Milan.