Renn Zaphiropoulos

'Abstract in Scarlet & Gray', Post-Painterly Abstraction, Large American Oil

1964

Signed verso, 'Barr' for Charles Barr (American, 1929-2019); additionally inscribed and painted circa 1965. From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 2019: CHARLES "CHUCK" BARR Age 89, of Highland Park, graduated from human life on August 11. Although no headlines marked the event, he was a great man. People ranging from fellow Pittsburghers to New York art collectors have known Chuck as a wonderful self-taught artist and creative jazz musician. But above all, everyone touched by his joy knew him as a carrier of the Great Spirit. Ten minutes with Chuck could do more than make your day. It could open your heart to the boundless possibilities that life offers, if only we live from love. Chuck was raised in a working-class musical family in Beechview. Leaving home as a teenager to play tenor sax in a Chicago nightclub alongside brother, Tommy, a pianist, he burned out on the late-night routine. He then spent years trying to fit into so-called normal society, working various jobs in places from Yokohama (with the U.S. Army) to Philadelphia. Around 1969, Chuck returned to Pittsburgh to rediscover his calling and became a local legend. A Post-Gazette article dubbed him the city's "rambling minstrel" for his sax and flute recitals in public. College-trained artists marveled at the dynamic, visually musical paintings...

Signed twice, verso, 'Carmélio' and 'Carmélio Cruz' for Carmélio' Rodrigues Cruz (Brazilian, born 1924) and dated 1966. Carmélio Rodrigues Cruz first studied art with the Brazilian painter, Jacinto de Souza (1935-1940). In 1944, he was invited to participate in the Sociedade Cearense de Artes Plásticas (SCAP), alongside other Latin American Modernists including Antonio Bandeira...

Signed lower right, 'N. Flynn' (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1975. A large and turbulent oil abstract showing a conflagration of hot colors contrasted against an auberg...

Signed lower right, 'Guillermo' for Erwin Guillermo (Guatemalan, born 1951) and dated 1998. A substantial and elegant, dimensional abstract comprising linear constructs in scumbled ...

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Holty did a series of works that explored the use of varying tones of Gray with other colors. This was done during his Colorfield foray as he pioneered this movement along with such...

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