Signed and inscribed on the verso, this contemporary oil by Giorgio Avanti (b.1946) depicts the Jungfrau, 2019. Published in Peaks & Glaciers 2021, cat. p.16.

A recognised Swiss author, poet and painter, Peter Studer uses 'Giorgio Avanti' as a pseudonym. He lives and works from a studio in Walchwil on the eastern shore of Lake Zug, in the heart of Switzerland. Avanti's use of intense colour has earned him the epithet the colourist of the Alps, and a lengthy article on his life and work appeared in the October/November 2020 edition of Munich's art magazine MUNDUS, subtitled Kolorist der Alpen.

Collectors interested in the continuing living tradition of Alpine painting, and in contemporary Swiss artists working in a boldly coloured, expressive idiom, will find this a vivid modern counterpart to the gallery's historical Alpine holdings.