Lot 19: GHERARDO CIBO

GENOA 1512 - 1600 ROCCA CONTRADA A FANTASY VIEW: A ROCKY ISLAND WITH FORTIFIED BUILDINGS, A BOAT IN THE FOREGROUND Pen and brown ink and wash, heightened with white, on blue paper 192 by 285 mm

Denys Sutton, London, by descent to the present owner

A characteristic work by the artist now known to be Gherardo Cibo.1 This combines his interest in landscape and trees, marine views and architecture, all of which can be found in his various drawings and sketch books. See note to lot 18. 1. A. Nesselrath, Gherardo Cibo, exhib. cat., San Severino Marche, 1989