Guarisco Gallery 2012

n Venetian women, de Blaas found a certain beauty and romantic timelessness that is exquisitely expressed in his work The Serenade. Here, he renders each figure with such tender detail that each group of figures could rightfully exist alone, and yet they are brought together in a composition that is both natural and harmonious. Highly finished, the work exhibits Blaas’ strong technical ability, his beautiful suffusive coloring, and his virtuoso brushwork. I The Serenade Eugène de Blaas Austrian, 1843-1931 The Serenade signed, d. 1910, o/c 37” x 44” (43-1/2” x 50-1/4” fr.)