Watercolour on cardboard - Island of St. Giorgio Maggiore - Erma Zago - early 1900s

Ermanno Giovanni Zago - known as Erma Zago - was a painter and drawer of the first half of the 20th century. He was born in Bovolone (Verona) in 1880, and after his studies he moved to Milan, where he exhibited his artworks in the most prestigious locations, and where he died in 1942. In order to increase his production, he travelled to many Italian cities, where he loved to paint views of daily folk life in person. This painting represents a view of the Island of Saint Giorgio Maggiore. It is a watercolour on cardboard realized with vivid brushstrokes, which give perfectly back the cheerful atmosphere of that moment. The painting (23,5x30,5cm) comes together with a frame of its same epoch, and both of them have been well preserved.