Oil painting on canvas board. In good condition. Canvas size 22x40 cm with beautiful gilded wooden frame 38x56 cm. Garzia Fioresi, pseudonym of Alfredo Grandi, was born to Giuseppe and Elisabetta Mainardi. After the family moved to Bologna in 1902, he attended the Academy of Fine Arts, obtaining his diploma in 1908. He was enlisted as an officer and called up for the Libyan War in 1912 and on the Carnic and Asiago fronts in 1916. He returned the following year after contracting malaria. The war experience did not prevent him from becoming known as a painter, an activity he continued after a crisis that was overcome thanks to the advice of Guglielmo Pizzirani. He participated in two Venice Biennales (1912-'14), the Rome Secessions (1913-'14-'15) and the Francesco Francia exhibitions, where, in 1916, he won the first prize with the work Madre (Mother). In 1914 he married Paola Fiori (d. 1957), a student at the Academy: they had two daughters, Lea and Marta. In this phase Fioresi created mainly figure works characterized by great plastic strength and expressive immediacy. Always dissatisfied and looking for new paths, he destroyed many of his early works in later years. In the post-war period, perhaps the richest period of his activity, participation in exhibitions was assiduous: he participated continuously in the Venice Biennales (from 1920 to 1930), in the Francesco Francia exhibitions, in three Rome Biennales (from 1921 to 1925), at the Florentine Spring exhibition of 1922, in Buenos Aires. Starting from the 1920s, although not abandoning the previous figurative subjects, he dedicated himself mainly to a production with a naturalistic theme, depicting not only landscapes of Bologna, but also Neapolitan and Adriatic seascapes, views of the Venetian lagoon, views of Garda and landscapes of the Mesola area. Recalled to arms in 1940, he was however soon discharged to continue teaching in Bologna. He maintained a strong friendship with the painter Giorgio Morandi throughout his life. He died in Bologna on March 29, 1968.