On Thursday 18th December Palazzo Broggi, prestigious Milanese venue of Sotheby’s Italy, is going to auction a parade of 106 extraordinary lots, nineteenth-century paintings and sculptures. 
The top lot is expected for an exceptional triad represented by the painters Emilio Longoni, Giovanni Boldini and Adolfo Tommasi, all estimated at about 100,000€.
The ball is led off by the highest estimate (320,000-420,000€) for “Alba” (Sunrise) by Emilio Longoni, work conceived in 1905 while the artist was staying in Val Malenco and exhibited the same year at the sixth edition of the Venice biennial.

 

From today until 7th September, the London National Gallery is dedicating to Italian divisionists an exhibition entitled “Radical Light: Italy’s Divisionist Painters 1891–1910.” It is one of the first exhibitions to be held outside Italy that explores this artistic period, by displaying more than fifty paintings realized by the most important divisionist masters such as Giovanni Segantini and Gaetano Previati. The exhibition will also present rare paintings lent by important private and public collections in Europe and North America.