Gian-Piero Garizio, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Gian-Piero Garizio, Stellenbosch, South AfricaThis delightful 20th century oil painting by Italian artist Gian Piero Garizio (b. 1931) depicts a row of period houses on Dorp Street, Stellenbosch, South Africa. Its early Autumn, the buildings are radiantly lit, the old oaks a graduation of tones. Garizio knew this street well as its steeped in history. It was once used as a wagon route for transporting goods and the architecture is referred to as Cape Dutch. Its easy to imagine the artist working

A beautifully rendered oil on canvas depicting a room at ’The Königspesel’ on the island of Hooge

The portrait is housed within a later gilded frame

and as such became known as the ‘School Of Barnes’

Henriette Desportes (1877-1951)

What do you make of this young gent

It’s an extraordinary piece that gives you a little more every time you look at it

Medium: Oil on canvasOverall size: 40½” x 25” / 103cm x 63cmYear of creation: c

D’Argence trained under Pierre François Eugène Giraud and Charles Busson and he’s predominantly known as a landscape painter

with the fruit decaying in places and the leaves curiously wilting

The portrait is signed/dated in the lower left and housed in a period frame with coved sides and a decorative inner border

It’s unsigned but clearly by a very accomplished academy-trained artist

At his superior action