GIOVANNI GRUBACS
Venice: The Molo from the Bacino;
and The Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore and the Church of Santa Maria della Salute
(Venice 1829 – 1919 Pola)
Oil on panel - 5 ⅞ x 9 ⅝ inches (15 x 25.5 cm ) - a pair
The first signed ‘G. Grub’ (lower left); signed and inscribed on the reverse ‘G. Grubas / Venetia’, and with inscription ‘May 1888’; the second signed ‘G. Grubas’ (lower right); signed on the reverse ‘G. Grubas’ and with inscription ‘Bought at Münztes ? [sic] Piazza S. Marco May 1888 80 frs.’
PROVENANCE -
Private Collection, UK, bought in the Piazza S. Marco in May 1888.
With Frost & Reed Ltd, London.
Private Collection, UK.
On Giovanni Grubacs see: G. Perocco, Carlo e Giovanni Grubacs a Venezia nell’Ottocento, in “Quaderni del Lombardo-Veneto”, 33, 1991, pp. 4-14; Carlo e Giovanni Grubacs vedutisti veneziani del XIX secolo, by F. Magani, exhibition catalogue, Milan 1999; C. Tonini, Grubacs (Grubas) Giovanni, in La pittura nel Veneto. L’Ottocento, by G. Pavanello, Milan 2003, II, p. 744; D. Succi, Il fiore di Venezia: dipinti dal Seicento all’Ottocento in collezioni private, Gorizia 2014, pp. 340-342, nn. 272-274; D. D’Anza, in Lo splendore di Venezia. Canaletto, Belotto, Guardi e i vedutisti dell’Ottocento, by D. Dotti, exhibition catalogue (Brescia), Cinisello Balsamo 2016, pp. 176-179, nn. 53-54.