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Signed ‘Rodriguez’ in red (lower right).
Sizes:
Frame: 38.5 × 58.5 cm | 15.2 × 23 in
Artwork: 20 × 39.5 cm | 7.9 × 15.6 in
A dark-haired model lies stretched on a white bed, arms folded behind her head, in a small horizontal panel where the pale sheets and the warm skin are set against a soft green-grey wall. The handling is quick and confident, the signature a flourish in red.
Salvatore Rodriguez, born in Naples in 1957, is an Italian figurative painter whose work is largely devoted to the female figure — ‘the tenderness and sensuality of women’, in his own words — painted in oil on canvas, board and cardboard in a manner that looks back to the Macchiaioli and the Impressionists.
Signed ‘Rodriguez’ at the lower right.
Private Collection, Spain.
Oil on board, framed. Very good condition; the paint layer is intact and the board sound. Please contact us to request a detailed Condition Report.
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Salvatore Rodriguez was born in Naples in 1957. A figurative painter working in oil on canvas, board and pressed cardboard, he describes his own art as impressionist, modern and in the line of the Macchiaioli — the Tuscan painters of the nineteenth century who built their pictures from patches of light and shade.
The greater part of his work is devoted to the female figure: reclining nudes, women at rest, portraits, painted with a rapid, confident brush and an eye for the tenderness and sensuality of the model.
Rodriguez signs his works ‘Rodriguez’, often in red, and his small panels of nudes on white sheets have a distinctive intimacy — the figure set against a few tones of grey-green and white, the paint fresh and unlaboured.
His paintings are offered through Italian galleries and online auction houses and are held in private collections in Italy, Spain and France.
Highlights of the Aurora & Athena autumn sale on 17 October 2026: Bridget Tichenor, Nicholas Roerich, Konstantin Korovin, Gerard Sekoto, Jan Zrzavý, Pan Yuliang, a Miró lithograph and the painters of the École de Paris.
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