Enchanting Winter Landscape, Italian Naïve Art, Signed Original Oil Painting

  

Original oil painting on wood by Elio Gervasi, titled “Pulcinella and the Winged Horse,” an example of Italian naïve painting with a magical, dreamlike quality reminiscent of Marc Chagall’s imaginary world. The painting depicts a fantastical landscape with a snow-covered village, multicolored flowers, and animals, where Pulcinella, a traditional character from Neapolitan theatre, encounters a winged horse.

This brightly colored figurative work blends folk imagination, theatrical tradition, and poetic fantasy. It is signed and bears the artist’s certificate of authenticity on the reverse.

Artist: Elio Gervasi, born in Messina and active in Rome since 1967.
Title: Pulcinella and the Winged Horse.

Subject: Pulcinella with a winged horse and a small dog in a snowy landscape featuring houses, trees, white birds, and fantastical vegetation.
Style: Naïve / neo-naïve painting, Chagall-inspired style, contemporary art, expressionism, magical and dreamlike figurative art.
Signature: Signed at the lower left.
Authentication: The reverse bears a certificate of authenticity issued by the artist, including the title of the work and the artist’s signature confirming its authenticity.

Painting dimensions: 24 cm wide x 18 cm high.
Frame dimensions: 46 cm wide x 40 cm high.

Elio Gervasi transforms the landscape into a miniature theatre of the imagination. At the center of the scene, Pulcinella stands beside a white winged horse, while a small dog joins their encounter. Behind them lies a peaceful village, with snow-covered roofs, fences, and bare trees beneath a sky shaded in pink and magenta, crossed by two white birds.

On either side, large flowers and multicolored leaves frame the composition like theatrical scenery. Their exuberance, juxtaposed with the winter landscape, heightens the scene’s otherworldly, fairy-tale atmosphere. The simplified forms, clear outlines, and colors freed from naturalistic constraints place the work within the visual language of naïve art.

The meeting of the everyday and the marvelous suggests affinities with Marc Chagall’s poetic world. The snow-covered village and the graphic branching patterns of the trees recall the landscapes of Ivan Generalic, a major figure in Croatian naïve painting, while the lush, oversized vegetation, punctuated by ornamental patterns, evokes the fantastical settings of Henri Rousseau, known as “Le Douanier.”

Born in Messina, Gervasi moved to Rome in 1967 and studied at the capital’s National Institute of Art. He began exhibiting at a very young age, in 1965. His painting draws inspiration from Sicilian folk art, particularly the decoration of traditional carts and votive paintings. He reinterprets their brilliant colors and storytelling traditions through a personal artistic language rooted in dreams, memory, and imagination.

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