Featured Cesare Tiratelli

Saw this piece today and although hard to tell with the glass on the way, it looks like hand painted.
But then I found this
https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/30556868_cesare-tiratelli-italian-watercolor-and-gouache

same image but different coloring and differences in some of the details.
So, what I saw was a print I guess?

 

The pics that you listed look to be an original watercolor but a modern copy of the original in my opinion

 

JMHO but yours looks better than the other in terms of colour, the technique, the hands etc.

 

Agree it is a painted copy of the Tiratelli. Compare the buttons on her blouse; they are not the same.

 

I'm not convinced which of these is the original... for those who tire of going back and forth between the two:

 

I agree. For instance, the man's left foot looks natural and like it truly is leaning on the step in your picture, but looks like it's floating in the air unnaturally in the other picture.

 

That said, it doesn't necessarily mean the picture you saw is a painting. Through much, or possibly all, of the 20th century there were commercial lithography processes used that did not have dots and could produce the look of a watercolor painting.

If the signature isn't clearly handwritten, it could be it wasn't individually signed but in a printing plate.

 

Gotta admit. I'm wondering if any of the "famous paintings made fresh every day" outfits work in watercolors.

@kardinalisimo if I had the piece, I'd contact the gallery. Long shot, but I'd do it: http://jjgillespiegallery.com/about.htm

 

This says he used brilliant colors:

https://www.valutazionearte.it/artisti/tiratelli-cesare/

If correct, an argument for the more vividly colored one.

 

Looking at a lot of them together, I think the more subdued colors are more Tiratelli's stylye:

http://www.artnet.com/artists/cesare-tiratelli/

 

The more I look at it, the more the piece on liveauctioneers just seems wrong. It's as if it was done on a peach colored paper (or a peach wash) and not completed. So many places are left with nothing but that background color.

 

The peachy background could possibly be from poor photo editing.

 

It's not so much the color that bothers me as what appears to be hastily blocked in bits that were never finished.

 

The painting technique is "flatter," too, with less shading.