An Italian horse trotting with jockey oil on canvas painting signed lower right by the Milanese artist Giancarlo Cippo Perelli, Milano 1923–2004. Dating back to 1980, the verso of the canvas shows the inscription Cippo Perelli 1980, Campbell della Scuderia Positano, Campbell from the Positano Stable,  the handwritten title, date and signature of the artist.

The work comes from a private villa of Milan and is in good condition, withni a modern giltwood frame.

Giancarlo Perelli Cippo was born in Milan in 1923. He was initiated into painting by Gino Moro and Arturo Checchi, his teachers at the Liceo Artistico of Brera. Starting from a classical basis and through a personal research, he took his painting to an intense expressiveness and was able to catch a peculiar figural view with a happy chromatic synthesis. Still young, he received his first invitations to the Biennials of Sacred Art of the Angelicum and to the Rome Quadrennials. He won prizes and awards in many painting competitions in Brescia, Bergamo, Turin, in 1953 the award “Paesaggio della Lomellina”, in 1977 the award “Premio Burano”. The places frequented and loved by the artist became part of his creative set: Milan, with the “Darsena”, the canals, San Siro and its horses running; Venice with its lagoon and the poetic islands of Burano and Torcello; the Tuscan landscape, the towns along the shores of Lake Como and Lake Garda, the banks of the rivers of the Lombard plain; the masterful views of Amsterdam with its canals. In 1976 a monograph about the artist from Milan appeared, presented by Ermanno Federico Scopinich. His works have been on permanent display at the Ponte Rosso gallery since 1977, the year of the artist’s first solo exhibition in this Milanese seat. Authoritative reporters talked about him, including: Leonardo Borgese, Raffaele De Grada, Ermanno Federico Scopinich, Mario Ghilardi, Luigi Gianoli, Angelo Caniggia, Carmelo Strano, Mario Monterverdi, Giulio Vito Musitelli, Gianni Brera, Silvio Consadori, Giuseppe Novello, Orlando Consonni. Giancarlo Perelli Cippo died in Milan in 2004.

Biographical notes from Ermanno Federico Scopinich monography of 1976.