Description
Vittorio Matiolin (active in Venice in the early 20th century) – Bragozzi with Sails in the Lagoon.
Oil on panel, in a gilded wooden frame.
Signed lower left: “Vitt. Matiolin”.
The painting depicts bragozzi (small boats) moored in the open lagoon, their large, unfurled sails—orange-ochre and green—dominating the foreground. To the left, two sailors animate the scene on the edge of the hull. In the background, a calm, luminous expanse of water with other sailing vessels in the distance, rendered with synthetic touches, conveys the vastness of the lagoon on a windy day. The brushstrokes are loose and constructive, with thick impasto on the sails and a vibrant rendering of the reflections on the water, fully in keeping with early 20th-century Venetian plein air painting. There is currently no documented biographical information about Vittorio Matiolin; his surname suggests Venetian origins, and the date 1920 inscribed on the work places his activity in the same period as the early 20th-century Venetian school.
Condition report: The painted surface is in good condition.
