Bruno GUAITAMACCHI ( 1931 - 2005 ) - A Tribute

BRUNO GUAITAMACCHI - (1931 - 2005 ) - A Tribute


Seven oil paintings by Bruno, selected by Magda.

The beautiful hardback book "Bruno Guaitamacchi", with full-colour illustrations demonstrating his development as a painter was published by his wife Magda and their three sons Paul, Luca and Jonathan in his Memory.
Copies of this hardback book can be obtained from Highgate Fine Art at 15 Pounds sterling.

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Bruno wrote this intoduction to his 2005 show:
"Since my last Highgate exhibition I have revisited some of my best-loved places where plein-air painting is an enticing experience.
On returning to Venice, Tuscany or East Anglia, I feel unable to recollect former involvements, as new sensations always take over. There is no instant recipe for capturing the incomparable charm of Venice or the stunning structural integrity of medieval Tuscan buildings, let alone the fascination of East Anglian skies!


Flowers and fruit are indispensable parts of my work and I devote some considerable time to these subjects .Returning from the commitment to plein air painting, I always find it rather calming to focus my attention upon the intimacy of a still-life composition.

I have many foreign visitors to my studio in Bellagio, Lake Como, and I find it very reassuring that my work is appreciated by so many different nationalities"
Bruno Guaitamacchi March 2005

There is no doubt that Bruno was a master of the classical treatment of landscape and still-life. With work in private collections all over the western world, Bruno has to choose his subjects with infinite care. We were especially pleased that he had painted a new version of the spectacular Via Emilia a Bologna! This was one of the colour illustrations for his large 1998 Highgate Exhibition and it sold on the first day.


Bruno’s many followers were not disappointed with that collection of major and minor masterpieces.

Noel Oddy and Laurie MacLaren,November 2007

'... a looser, lusher Annigoni.He knows...how to push the pigment around...he uses the facility to engender glamour in flowerpieces...stunning virtuosity ...brushwork...bears comparison to Sargent...."(Ray Rushton,East Anglian Daily Times)

Selected exhibitions:

England:
Phoenix Gallery Lavenham 1982 - 1994
Beldesign,Cambridge 1987
Interiors,Skipton 1987,90,94
Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery 1987
Phoenix Gallery Kingston 1987
Phoenix Galleries London 1988,89,91
Galerie Valerie Knightsbridge 1995,96
Heffers Gallery Cambridge 1997
Headcorn Gallery Kent 1997,99
Wildlife Art Gallery Lavenham 1999
Stephen Walton, Cambridge
and Bury St Edmunds 1999,2000
Highgate Fine Art,London 1998 - 2005

Italy:
Bolzani ,Milan 1965-93, 97, 99
Guelfi Art, Genoa 1974,80, 97
Vertici,Milan 1975-82, 98
San Michele, Brescia 1973-81
Meridiana,Verona 1979,98
Berman, Turin 1974-83, 98
Guidi, Genoa 1974-8,98
Il Riccio, Venice 1982, 88
L’Incontro, Cremona 1987-8, 94,97, 2000 Il Retrovo,Monteveccia 1978-94,98
Il Retrovo,Milano-Cernusco 1996,97
Brianza Arte, a Visconti 1996
Il Giardino, Siracusa 1995,6,7
Il Naviglio Grande, Milan 1998
Galleria Il Ritrovo (Miilan) 2001,02
Premio Acquisto, Citta di Siracusa (Sicily) 2004
Galleria Voghera (Voghera) 2005

USA:
New Masters Gallery,California 1988,89
Kertesz Fine Art, San Francisco 1989,90

Paintings