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active European, American & Australian Artists

Blackpool Opera House by Fortunino Matania

Another amazing image from the Italian artist and illustrator Fortunino Matania, showing the stage and audience during an operatic performance at Blackpool. Signed lower left, this work is in good condition having been newly reframed and mounted behind museum-quality U.V. glass. From the private estate of a commercial airline pilot who collected items and images relating to balloons and ballooning.

Measures 32.5 cm wide by 22.5 cm deep (51 cm by 43.5 cm in its frame).

£2500

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active European, American & Australian Artists

Gala Night At The Empire Ballroom, Blackpool by Fortunino Matania

An astonishing and highly detailed watercolour of a party  night at the Gala Ballroom, the Winter Gardens in Blackpool by the Italian artist Fortunino Matania (1881-1963). Signed lower left,this work is in good condition having been newly reframed and mounted behind museum-quality U.V. glass. From the private estate of a commercial airline pilot who collected items and images relating to balloons and ballooning. NB; digital prints  of this are available from a company in America but this is the original watercolour.

Measures 31 cm wide by 22 cm deep (51 cm by 43.5 cm in its frame).

 

£4000