Pier Antonio Gariazzo (Turin, 1879-1964) OIL PAINTING OF A GIRL JUMPING ROPE X11

OIL PAINTING
work of the painter Pier Antonio Gariazzo (Turin,1879-1964)

Girl jumping rope, very fine painting signed "Gariazzo 59" on the bottom right.

Biography of the painter (from Wikipedia):

Pietro Antonio Paolo Gariazzo, known as Pier Antonio (Turin, 7 June 1879 – Turin, 10 January 1964), was an Italian painter, engraver, writer and filmmaker.
Son of a rich landowner of Biella origin[1], upon his father's imposition, he graduated in medicine and surgery in 1902 with a thesis on Neurosis in relation to the marvellous. He practiced as a doctor only during the Great War, when he was stationed on the Isonzo [2]. Gariazzo therefore completely neglected medical science to pursue painting, engraving and etching, a vocation he had from a very young age. He then moved to Rome (where he was a pupil of Domenico Bruschi and Francesco Vitalini), to Belgium, and finally returned to Turin where he frequented the studio of Giacomo Grosso. He made his debut in 1899 at the Turin Promotrice, and participated in the four-year Turin exhibitions from 1902 to 1908. In his activity as a painter, he created a series of portraits depicting naturalistic landscapes (inspired by the Piedmont and Lazio countryside), and numerous Belle Époque portraits in a mixed technique with charcoal and engraving. Among these there was a portrait from 1907 dedicated to his friend the writer Amalia Guglielminetti. In the same period, he approached cinematography, first as an artistic collaborator at Itala Film and then as founder of his own film company, Savoia Film (1911). As a film producer, he made a fair number of films, some successful such as In hoc signo vinces in 1913, and was also an artistic director, director and screenwriter. In 1916 he left Savoia Film, and collaborated with Pasquali Film, Gloria Films, Vay Film, and then went to Germany where, in 1924 he directed his last film entitled Salvation starring Diana Karenne. He wrote books, including La Stampa Incisa (1907) and Il Teatro Muto (1918). He returned to his activity as a painter and held various personal exhibitions in Paris, Berlin, London and Brussels; in Milan in 1939; in Turin in 1940; in Rome, Milan and Cremona in 1941. In 1950 he presented a series of paintings interpretive of the music in Turin, including Rachmaninof's Prelude in C sharp minor. Among the frequenters and students of his workshop we remember Pietro Augusto Cassina.