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Salvatore GrippiFigures Running - Early Abstract Expressionism like Willem de Kooning1950
1950
$90,000
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NOK 924,340.44
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About the Item
Salvatore Grippi was my art professor at Ithaca college from 1970- 1971
Who was doing paintings like this in 1950? Jackson Pollack, Willem De Kooning and Salvatore Grippi, and a few others. Grippi was on the landing crew a Normandy Beach WWII and his early work reflects from the of the tension and stress of the moment. Like de Kooning the work is at the intersection of Abstract Expressionism and Representation.
Grippi exhibited with the giants of the movement, Kooning, Nevelson, and Kline.
Grippi's work is in the collections of the MOMA, The Whitney. The Met., The Library of Congress and the Hirshhorn Collection.
In the 1950's he was with the Zabriskie Gallery and exhibited with William Baziotes, Adolph Gottlieb, Willem de Kooning, Michael Goldberg and Louise Nevelson at the famed Stable Gallery from 1953 - 1957.
In 2011, he was honored with a solo retrospective at Cornell University's Johnson Museum of Art.
The work is in an original, simple and minimal wood frame.
Signed and dated lower right.
Work is in original simple and minimal wood frame.
- Creator:Salvatore Grippi (1921 - 2007, American)
- Creation Year:1950
- Dimensions:Height: 31.5 in (80.01 cm)Width: 40.3 in (102.37 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
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- Condition:Good/Fair. The oil paint is on unprimed wood and some of the wood is showing through the paint. Since this was the intent of the artist, we should accept it as organic, some craqueleur and surface issues commensurate with age.
- Gallery Location:Miami, FL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU385313423312

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