Smith & Singer are honoured to offer Girolamo Nerli's The Red Bluff, Point Ormond (1888) for private sale.

In late 1885, when Girolamo Nerli arrived in Melbourne with fellow Italian painter Ugo Catani, they brought with them sketches by various contemporary artist friends.  Exponents of the Macchiaioli school of plein-air painting in Italy – so-called due to the macchie, or spots of bright colour that characterised their work – these artists further promoted the ideas and Impressionism with its broken brushwork and emphasis on mood and moment that influenced the younger generation of Australian artists.

Nerli’s The Red Bluff, Point Ormond (1888) remains one of the few landscape subjects in oil that the artist produced during his brief yet influential stay in Melbourne.  Other examples included, Beach Scene, Hobson’s Bay (1889, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney), Beach Scene, Sandringham (1889, Art Gallery of New South Wales) and The Beach at Port Melbourne from the Foreshore, St. Kilda (1889, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne).

We are particularly delighted to present Girolamo Nerli’s magnificent The Red Bluff, Point Ormond for Private Sale.