Ermogene.Miraglia (Italian 1907-1964)
 
Woman Seated
 
This original Ermogene Miraglia oil on unstretched canvas of a Neapolitan Woman Seated measures 31” x 24” and is signed lower right E. Miraglia. He often took inspiration from everyday people doing normal everyday activities and the simplicity of their lives in and around Naples. This painting of a seated woman is a quintessential representation of Ermogene Miraglia's work. The painting is in good overall condition and is vibrant and colorful. The painting was purchased from a New York City 5th Avenue Gallery and was from a Manhatten Estate.
 
***PLEASE NOTE - The painting comes unframed and without a stretcher, this is an unstretched canvas and will be packed well and shipped safely within a tube.***
 
Biography:
Ermogene Miraglia was born in an old neighborhood of Naples, Italy. He was the first born of six children born to Luigi Miraglia, a physician, and Teresa Costarelli, a musician and a virtuoso of the mandolin.
 
Painting From an early age he showed remarkable powers of observation and a strong sense of form and color. The diverse and colorful city of Naples, the family and traditional culture that is forming expression inspires him and his art. Even though Miraglia later was awarded the academic title of honor of the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, he did not receive any formal art education and is known as a very accomplished self-taught artist. His primary influence came from French painters Vincenzo Irolli and Antonio Mancini, with whom he shares a taste for paint mixing and material body. From these influences, Miraglia learned to focus color with touches and strokes of the spatula and brush to create light with spot-color combinations.
 
Ermogene Miraglia often took inspiration from everyday people and the simplicity of their life in and around Naples. He took inspiration to paint people at play, work at the market or on the streets, etc. often expressing attitudes and habitual expressions of the subjects in these works. He also became known for his portraits of women, men, children and animals in various settings and activities.
 
Ermogene Miraglia successfully participated in several exhibitions in Italy and abroad, and his signature is inserted into Comanducci Arte. The art critic professor Domenico Maggiore, in the third volume of "The artists living in Italy," he says, "Ermogene Miraglia can well be framed among the great artists of nineteenth-century Neapolitan painting, for the perfection of design and for the tones and harmony of colors. The art of this master oscillates between Renaissance pictorial classicism and Impressionism, almost a synthesis of these luminous periods and is linked to the highest traditions of Neapolitan painting of the last century… In front of his works there is the certainty to be in front of a master of color. He does not knead on the palette but on the canvas while he is painting. His works are rich in material and are felt in the successive passages of tones, which are never repeated, a limpidity of brushstroke, a certainty, and a freshness that amazes… Another reason for admiration is the taste of the particular really felt, fruit of sure and wise touch, not born of scholastic pedantry: Miraglia from an excellent nineteenth-century introduces us to subjects that belong to the family” (Domenico Maggiore).