Ultima Tariff

“Ultima Tariffa”, the seventh painting in the series called “Serie di Venezia” which features interesting scenes I encountered in my travels to Venice Italy. As I was heading out for my nightly wanderings, I turned a random corner and saw this last line heading off into the sunset. This is my absolute favorite painting, not only of the Series, but of all time. It is for sale, but I REALLY do not want it to go, so it’s priced accordingly.

The piece is painted on a custom built and stretched canvas frame which I made specifically for this painting, it is complete and ready to hang.

Painting Details:

-Custom canvas stretcher prepared with 3 coats of Blick Professional Gesso and an additional original painting “under coat”

-Brushes; Grumbacher Bristle Flat #2, #3, #4, Round #1, Winsor & Newton Bristle Filbert #2, Princeton Bristle Flat #2, #3, Davinci Kolnsky Flat #2 and Escoda Clasico Chungking White Flat #6 #8

-Paint; Winsor & Newton Artist Colour, Gamblin Artist Oil, Old Holland Oil Colors, Blockx Oil Colors and Sennelier Artist Oil. 22 different base colors mixed to hue and varying thickness. Liquin and Colbalt dryer agents used to thin paint and speed-up “drying” time

- Final painting was sealed using 2 coats of Gamvar High Gloss after four (4) month “drying” time

Custom Frame Details:

Shadow Box style frame made of Red Oak by the Artist exclusively for this painting in 2020.

- Frame dimensions are 40”h x 26”w x 2.6”d

- Shadow width ¼” from canvas to frame and the frame edge width is 3/4” wide

- Frame is Stained and Varnished with 2 coats of Dark Ebony Satin finish

- 100lb. rated picture cable through stainless steel eye-hooks is used to hang the entire piece. (16lbs. total weight for canvas and frame)

As always, I welcome the opportunity to discuss making a similar Original Commissioned Piece (it will NOT be a copy, but shall have the same feel as the original).