Composition - Original Drawing by Madeleine Scali - Late 20th Century

Late 20th Century

Composition is an original Drawing in Pencil and watercolor realized by an anonymous artist in the mid-20th Century. Good Conditions. The artwork is depicted through strong strokes...

The Rest is an original drawing in watercolor and ink realized by Leo Guida in 1970. Good condition. Hand-signed. The artwork is depicted through strong strokes with perfect hatch...

"My work principally consists of deeply abstracted figure compositions--intuitive constructions that begin with random marks establishing larger masses of torsos, heads, and limbs in an undefined setting. The emphasis is almost purely on intuition. The figures are born of their surrounding environment, emerging only partially and fugitively from the layers of pigment. A narrative is evident but never overt. A crown, a shield, a boat, a wheel. Though the subject has recently coalesced around my reading of Dante and Shakespeare, the settings remain extremely vague- a beach, an interior, a woodland. The paintings are, in the end, meditations on the relationship between the protagonists in a wordless drama. In my paintings, I use a cold wax medium...

In this intimate drawing, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a young woman crouched down in a garden. The image is framed by foliage and fields of color. 3.75 x 5.25 inches, ...