Id oil on canvas, 70x50, signed I.Nardi

Hello friends,

today I propose you this great painting, oil on canvas, 70x50, signed I.Nardi and countersigned on the back IVA NARDI.

I searched the web and I was able to discover that the Nardi italian family is a famous family of painters of the late nineteenth and twentieth century.

But unfortunately in particular, I do not find any argument concerning Iva Nardi.

Through your help I would like to be able to get more information, and a possible dating.

I must admit that this painting leaves me breathless, for the shades of colors used and the softness of the image, which almost seems to float in the air.

I do not know if I can explain well, the feeling I get is that the woman seems to be lighter than the parrot.

Thank you all for your time










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Her face is beautiful. The bracelet looks 1980s, if that is any help.
The bird is not a parrot with that head and beak, I don't know what it is. It seems to be sliding off her shoulder, which could add to the impression of the woman being lighter than the bird. A symbolist painting.

It does say Iva Nardi on the back, but as Hunting/inh said, the signature is the one on the front.

 

On the back there is written Iva Nardi but actually comparing that signature with that "official" of the front, calligraphy are different. Perhaps as @i need help says, maybe that on the back the auctioneer or the old owner of the painting wrote the name of the painter. The frontal signature instead is the original one of the painter and it is very likely that it corresponds to Iva Nardi but unfortunately I can not find anything about her, but I find a lot of information about a family of Nardi painters.
@Any Jewelry excellent intuition that one of the bracelet, I had not thought about it!

 

it's a nice painting....

 

While the size is all wrong, I think the bird may be meant to represent the Bali Mynah.

 

It's really similar

 

were these exported to other countries as pets ?
cuz that's the same bird !

 

Illegally, yes.

 

"Questa specie in pericolo critico è il simbolo nazionale dell'Isola di Bali. Questo bellissimo uccello è stato scoperto nel 1912.
La myna Bali (Leucopsar rothschildi), noto anche come Rothschild"

but then ... from the fact that perhaps that bird is a Bali Mynah, maybe the woman represented in the painting is a beautiful Indonesian, or a beautiful European woman on holiday in Indonesia

 

She has a website
http://www.lillynardi.it

 

Yes I was writing the same...
She's not

 

She doesn't look Indonesian, certainly not Balinese. She could be a fair-skinned Indonesian-European mix, but that is just speculation. I think the bird was either in Europe, or was just the artist's way of adding to the mood of the painting.