Max Marra

Italian Modernist Abstract Sculpture Painting Shaped Canvas Brutalist Collage

2002

Berndt Haussmann (German / American, b. 1957) Das Lied von der Erde, mixed media painting on canvas signed, titled and numbered on verso unframed 32 1/4 x 48 inches. BERND HAUSSMAN...

Abstract oil on canvas painting by Ivan Freitas. 25" x 31" inch canvas, framed to 30" x 36". Bearing a Barcinski Art Gallery label verso and a second label stating that the painting was sold in 1961 at a benefit auction for the Albert Einstein Hospital held at the Museum of San Paulo. Ivan Freitas was a Brazilian Postwar & Contemporary painter and Muralist (1932-2006) Son of muralist Severino Araújo, Ivan started painting as a self-taught artist. His first individual exhibition was at the Public Library, in 1957. With the success of the exhibition, he was able to move to Rio de Janeiro the following year, in 1958, where he came into contact with the work of artists such as Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte who influenced him. Between 1962 and 1963 he resided as a fellow in Paris. Between 1969 and 1972, he was on his second tour abroad, in New York City and commissioned by the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation. Back in Brazil, he painted a mural of over a thousand square meters on the external wall of the National School of Music in Rio de Janeiro in 1984 - the first of the Arte nos Muros Project. Still in the 70s, he married Dalva Mendes Gall whom he left after his death in 200, an extensive collection where one can find all the best works of this renowned Paraiba artist in Brazil and abroad. The stay in New York, from 1969 to 1972, was perhaps the greatest turning point in Ivan's career. Until then, according to art critic Roberto Pontual, the plastic artist followed "a phase of abstraction close to the informal". In the United States , with so much technological influence around him, Ivan becomes interested in the machine and its movement mechanisms and inserts these perceptions in his works, as kinetic constructions with small motors hidden in boxes as Pontual defines, and also and triggering light patterns in cyclic and repeated series. (similar to the Op Art works of Julio le Parc and works by Yves Tinguely being shown at Rene Denis Gallery in Paris In 1968, the magazine Galeria de Arte Moderna (GAM), published an article entitled Ivan Freitas and the Cosmic Space. In the Brazilian Dictionary of Plastic Artists , the Italian art critic Giuseppe Marchiori refers to Ivan Frentas as someone who "controls and dominates each part of the painting with a desire to deepen the image that surprises and enchants". Still according to the critic, Ivan is someone who preserves the mystery in the harmony between lines and the colorful atmosphere, where he creates pauses and rhythms for the reading of his "secret structures". Arte Neo Concreta artists Lygia Clark, Helio Oiticica and Lygia Pape, were all contemporaries The poet Ferreira Gullar writes: "Freitas does not turn to the subjective world, does not inquire into the arcana of the unconscious; he inquires into the future and, in the solitude of his paintings, promises us a serene and orderly world. And, if in his landscapes man does not appear, it is not that this order excludes him - it is that he has not yet reached it. " Selec Solo Exhibitions 1957 - João Pessoa Public Library; João Pessoa, PB. 1960 - Ivan Freitas: Painting Exhibitions , at the Penguin Gallery; Rio de Janeiro - RJ. 1961 - MAM-BA , Salvador , BA. 1962 - Rubbers Gallery; Buenos Aires , Argentina . 1962 - La Cabana Galeria; Trieste , Italy . 1962 - Brazil-United States Cultural Institute; Rio de Janeiro - RJ. 1962 - Brazil-Uruguay Institute; Montevideo , Uruguay . 1962 - Barcinski Gallery; Rio de Janeiro - RJ. 1963 - Galleria Del Canale, Naples , Italy. 1963 - Ivan Freitas: Paris 1963, at the Barcinski Gallery ; Rio de Janeiro - RJ. 1964 - Barcinski Gallery; Rio de Janeiro - RJ. 1966 - Relief Gallery; Rio de Janeiro - RJ. 1968 - Relief Gallery; Rio de Janeiro - RJ. 1969 - Pan American Union; Washington , United States. 1971 - Miramar Gallery; New York, United States. 1971 - Bloomingdale's Art Gallery; New York, United States. 1973 - Individual, at Galeria Bonino; Rio de Janeiro - RJ. 1973 - Galeria Collection; São Paulo , SP. 1974 - Ivan Freitas: Paintings / Objectives , at the Rio de Janeiro Art Exchange; Rio de Janeiro - RJ. 1975 - Arte Global Gallery; São Paulo-SP. 1976 - Ivan Freitas: Paintings / Space / Movement , at Galeria Ipanema; Sao Paulo-SP. 1977 - Paulo Prado Gallery; Sao Paulo-SP. 1978 - Paraíba State Cultural Foundation; João Pessoa, PB. 1979 - Gallery B. 75 Concorde; Rio de Janeiro - RJ. 1980 - Individual, at Galeria do Sesi; Sao Paulo-SP. 1980 - Paulo Prado Gallery; Sao Paulo-SP. 1986 - Ivan Freitas: The Reinvented Landscape , at Galeria Arte Aplicada; Sao Paulo-SP. 1987 - Applied Art Gallery; Sao Paulo-SP. 1989 - Evasion Arte Gallery; Sao Paulo-SP. 1994 - GB Arte Gallery; Rio de Janeiro - RJ. Select Group Exhibitions 1959 - 8th National Salon of Modern Art; Rio de Janeiro - RJ. 1960 - 9th National Salon of Modern Art; Rio de Janeiro - RJ. 1961 - 10th National Salon of Modern Art - jury exemption and critical award; Rio de Janeiro - RJ. 1961 - 6th São Paulo International Art Biennial , at the Ciccilo Matarazzo Pavilion; Sao Paulo-SP. 1963 - Art from America and Spain; Europe . 1963 - 2nd Youth Biennial; Paris, France. 1963 - 7th São Paulo International Art Biennial, at the Fundação Bienal; ; Sao Paulo-SP. 1964 - 2nd Art Summary of Jornal do Brasil, at MAM-RJ; Rio de Janeiro - RJ. 1965 - Current Brazilian Art; Bonn , Germany . 1965 - Current Brazilian Art; London , England . 1965 - 1st Esso Young Artists Salon, at MAM-RJ; Rio de Janeiro - RJ. 1965 - Opinion 65, at MAM / RJ; Rio de Janeiro - RJ. 1965 - 1st Esso Salon of Young Artists, at MAC / USP; Sao Paulo-SP. 1965 - 8th São Paulo International Art Biennial, at the Fundação Bienal; Sao Paulo-SP.* 1965 - Current Brazilian Art; Vienna , Austria . 1966 - 5 Contemporary Painters from Brazil; Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1966 - 5 Contemporary Painters from Brazil; Montevideo, Uruguay. 1966 - 1st National Biennial of Plastic Arts; Salvador BA. 1967 - 9th Bienal Internacional de Arte de São Paulo, at the Bienal Foundation; Sao Paulo-SP. 1968 - 2nd Esso Young Artists Salon, at MAM / RJ; Rio de Janeiro - RJ. 1969 - 7th JB Art Summary, at MAM-RJ ; Rio de Janeiro - RJ. Local de realização:(Brasil / Rio de Janeiro / Rio de Janeiro) Instituição de realização:Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Ficha Técnicado evento Resumo de Arte JB Artista participante: Anna Letycia, Darel, Farnese de Andrade, Fayga Ostrower, Flexor, Frans Krajcberg, Ione Saldanha...

Heavily ttextured, layered collaged painting. signed lower right and with a label from American Friends of th Tel Aviv Art Museum verso along with an original label. reminiscent of t...

Dina Recanati Cosmos Series (they look like outer space or abstract desert landscapes) Hand signed and dated 2002 Metallic paint, acid etched on aluminum, wood Dina Recanati (born Diane Hettena; 1928 – 2021) was an Israeli artist, sculptor and painter. Diane Hettena was born in Cairo, Egypt. In 1946, she married Raphael Recanati in Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine. Went to London to study History and Art 1946-1948. Moved to New York 1948. Raised two sons, Oudi and Michael. Attended Art Student League 1959-1962. Studied with Jose de Creft and John Hovannes. Beginning in 1964, she was active on the board of the America-israel Cultural Foundation. In the 1970s, she was a member of the board of the Israel Museum and in the 1980s Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem. At the same time as she was working as an artist, she was also collecting artwork. She lives and works in Herzliya and New York. Most of Recanati's work is in the medium of sculpture. Her works, which contain images of books or parchment, have been influenced by American abstract expressionism in their use of swaths of color. In the 1980s and 1990s, she worked widely in sculptures in the public domain. Dina Recanati was a proponent of Israeli art and supported many Israeli artists. In the 1950s and 1960s, she showcased the work of beginning artists at the 5th Avenue branch of Israel Discount Bank in New York City, while growing Discount Bank’s art collection. She has gone on to exhibit worldwide with permanent works in the Israel Museum, Tel Aviv Museum, Ben Gurion Airport, The Jewish Museum (New York) among others. She is the recipient of the AICF AVIV Award and The Council for a Beautiful Israel Yakir Award. She was represented by Flomenhaft Gallery in New York City (was included in the Feminist Art Project along with Miriam Schapiro) and Gordon Gallery in Tel Aviv. Recanati died in Herzliya Pituah at the ate of 93. Israeli Art: Painting, Sculpture, Graphic Work. Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv 1971 Artists: Igael Tumarkin, Bezalel Schatz, Yehiel Shemi, Buky Schwartz, Dina Recanati, Menashe Kadishman, David Palombo, Itzhak Danziger, Sorel Etrog, Yaacov Agam, Jakob Steinhardt, Louise Schatz, Anna Ticho, Ruth Schloss, Moshe Castel, Yohanan Simon, Lea Nikel, Marcel Janco, Mordecai Ardon etc. 40 From Israel: Contemporary Sculpture & Drawing Israel: Contemporary Sculpture & Drawing Brooklyn...

This stunning abstract artwork was made in 1960, by the well known Italian artist Ermete Lancini. The artwork is a painting and a collage with newspaper...

This stunning abstract artwork was made in 1960, by the well known Italian artist Ermete Lancini. The artwork is a painting and a mix media collage with resin and paper glued element...

An abstract relief painting, black center, different shades of orange, pink, red, purple around, with a green surrounding line, post-modern, abstract, forme-libre, oil on wooden pann...

This stunning abstract artwork was made in 1967, by the well known Italian artist Ermete Lancini. The artwork is a painting and a collage with newspaper sheet and other glued element...