DinoPro

Hi Group,

I purchased this piece in Upstate NY from an old Italian couple. It's an Oil Painting 36" x 24" original. Looks like an 100 Yr old Painting.
Here's the dilemma:

It looks as though someone wrote over the original artists signature. They wrote " Kruger " over top of original artist. On the back of painting, there are 3 white-out areas. The top line ( whited out ), when held up to a bright light, you can see: H-31.

The second white-out area covers this:" A Heavy Load " ( Assuming this is the title of piece ).

The third white-out area , again , has Kruger written in black ontop of the white-out. However, I took digital pictures and used a MS program to alter the contract and Hue and you can clearly see the REAL name of original artist. It looks like: G GxxxxxO.....I can;t make out the all the letters.

I am sending photo's of painting and white-out areas. Can anyone please help ?? Thanks so much.............Dino Pro
Dprove1034@aol.com

John

Hi, I can't make out anything in the pics you posted, but here is a list of artists from the Getty museum's ULAN database that match the portion of the signature you are guessing at. The following is a list of artists from the past couple of hundred years, excluding sculptors, architects, etc.

Grieco, Gennaro (Italian painter, active 18th century)
Greco, Giuseppe (Italian draftsman, active 18th-19th centuries)
Grosso, Giacomo (Italian painter 1860-1938)
Gonzato, Guido (Italian painter, 1896-1955, active in Switzerland)
Gallizio, Giuseppe Pinot (Italian painter, 1902-1964)
Gavrilenko, Grigory I. (Ukrainian painter, 1927-1984)
Gambino, Giuseppe (Italian artist, born 1928)
Gallo, Giuseppe (Italian painter, born 1954)
Granizo, Guillermo Wagner (American artist and muralist, active 20th century)