Contemporary painting, signed copy by Rognoni, 20th century

Oil on canvas. The signature of the painter Franco Rognoni appears in the bottom right, but the work has not been recognised as authentic by the artist's archives. Nevertheless, it reflects Rognoni's pictorial style well, characterised by figures, men and houses, drawn in black with some precise lines, then filled with colour that blends into the background. On the canvas, an elegant male figure appears, leaning impassively and indifferently on the flowered railing of a terrace overlooking a city; below, in the bottom left, another face emerges (the same man?) wearing a military helmet and set against a darker, less sunny urban background: whether it is the man at war remembering the time of peace or vice versa, the reference to the alternation in life between peace and war, serenity and drama is evident. The work is presented in a frame.