Emma Ciardi - Impression - Venice (island Of San Giorgio)

oil on panel, 27.5 x 37 cm
Signed lower left: "Emma Ciardi - Venice 1914".
On the back title of the work, cartouche of the Pesaro Gallery and exhibition number.

Emma Ciardi (Venice, 1879 - 1933), daughter of Guglielmo Ciardi (1842-1917) and younger sister of Beppe Ciardi (1875-1932), was initiated into painting as a child. Initially influenced by her father's poetics, she devoted herself to Venetian views and subjects of the Venetian countryside. However, she soon achieved her own expressive autonomy, which can already be seen in the year of her debut, 1900. This was the year of her participation in the Universal Exhibition in Paris, when Emma Ciardi immediately won the praise of international critics.

Three years later came her Italian debut at the Venice Biennale, where she would go on to exhibit for many years, together with her brother Beppe. Emma Ciardi immediately became the interpreter of a highly personal painting style, consisting of a dense brushstroke, full of colour, vibrant in its luminosity. The Venetian lagoon is one of her favourite subjects, together with paintings of a neo-eighteenth-century matrix.

One immediately notices how the sudden and rapid impression of vision is captured through a vivid and bright colour scheme, observed in long sessions en plein air, even from boats in the lagoon. In 1918, a solo exhibition of his work was held at the Galleria Pesaro, in which almost two hundred paintings dedicated mainly to his Venice appeared.