"Still Life" by Sergio Colombo

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Ended:August 9th 2017, 12:00pm EDT

Winner: renzodonello

€450($482 USD)

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The Prize

Work by Sergio Colombo

This is a 1990 oil on canvas. Its dimensions are 50 x 60cm. Excellent condition.

Sergio Colombo was born in Varese in 1929. He is a student of the painter Giuseppe Talamoni. As a young man, he earned a living as a graphic artist, specializing in the correction and retouching of photographs. Passionate about the human figure and a sensitive interior portraitist, as an adult he concentrated his attention on the pictorial details of the Varese landscape of which he seeks out the known and less-known parts and portrays them with fond loyalty.

He has presented at more than two hundred personal and collective shows, and numerous monographs have been written about his work, some of which have been focused specifically on certain places in the province: Il Sacro Monte, Cairate, the railways, Villa Recalcati, Villa della Porta Bozzolo, Induco Olona. In 2000 he painted four large triangular panels for the squinches of the dome in the Church of Sant’Antonio di Padova alla Brunella in Varese.

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The Cause

Micro Sol means Solidal Microcredit. We have created a fund to provide small interest-free loans for people who live in countries where the average income is particularly low: Burundi, Rwanda, Nicaragua. The microcredit is then used to found or expand a work reality like creating farms or spaces to host chickens and pigs, and buying seeds or equipment to grow rice, cereals or beans. People can also buy what they need to open a tailoring service, a little shop in isolated areas away from the cities, and many other ventures. The micocredits are usually from 20 to 800 euros per person/family, and they expire in 4 to 18 months. In the locations, our professional partners select the beneficiaries that monitor the microcredit and make sure that it's returned to the charity. At this point, we can either return the loan to the donor or loan the money to other people.

Website

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Item #P17969

In condition as donated.

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