Italian painter Nicola Simbari used vivid color to convey the beauty and richness of life. His figurative paintings and drawings were often set in serene Mediterranean landscapes, giving them a romantic quality. Simbari had a distinctive contemporary and expressionist style characterized by broad strokes of saturated pastels, creating scenes that seemed to be soaked in sunlight.
Simbari was born in 1927 in Calabria, Italy, a region known for its stunning sea vistas. When he was three years old, his family moved to Rome, where his father worked as an architect at the Vatican. Surrounded and enthralled by the city’s cultural masterpieces, Simbari decided to pursue art. He studied painting and architecture at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma and opened his studio when he was 22 years old.
In 1953, Simbari held his first solo show in Rome and won a best stage design award for the musical Tarantella Napoletana. In 1958, he had a solo show in London and a mural commission for the Italian Pavilion at the Brussels World’s Fair.
Simbari never stopped growing as an artist. He experimented with many styles throughout his career and constantly pursued new colors to expand his range as a painter. When he died in 2012, Simbari was considered one of Italy’s greatest living artists.
Today, Simbari’s work is held in both private and public collections across the globe, including the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Liberty Company, the Christian Dior Collection, the Bank of Tokyo, the University of Cincinnati Fine Arts Department, the Exxon Corporation and the Tulsa Bank of Commerce.
Simbari’s paintings continue to resonate with viewers. In 2021, Findlay Galleries in Palm Beach, Florida, presented “Mediterraneo,” an exhibition of his landscapes and figurative works.
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Tram Notturno (Night Tram) - Original Mixed Media by Nicola Simbari
By Nicola Simbari
Located in Roma, IT
Original mixed media pencil, charcoal and white lead by Nicola Simbari. Hand-titled in pencil on lower-left margin, and signed in pencil on the lower margin at the center. In good...
Charcoal, Mixed Media
Trees Mixed Media Painting
By Henry Moore
Located in London, GB
This mixed media painting by Henry Moore is a unique artwork created in 1980 using layers of watercolour, charcoal and gouache on paper. Moore has adopted his usual style to create t...
Paper, Charcoal, Mixed Media, Gouache
$6,000
H 23.25 in W 16.25 in D 2.25 in
"Celadon" Hand cut diorama of pencil, watercolor, and charcoal
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Celadon" is an original artwork made from pencil, watercolors, and charcoal on cotton rag paper by Christine Kim. This piece is shipped with the pictured wooden frame and measures 23.25"h x 16.25"w x 2.25"d. This piece was displayed in 2023 group exhibition "Lucky 13", which featured work having to do with themes of luck, tradition, and superstition. "Forests not only have connections with spirits and gods, but it is also linked to our subconscious world of emotions, intuition, memory and imagination. In this cut paper diorama, I wanted to carve out a figure and replace it with the mysterious depths of a forest that is growing wild...
Mixed Media, Charcoal, Watercolor, Rag Paper, Pencil
Unique (African Allure) 4
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authent...
Canvas, Charcoal, Mixed Media, Acrylic
$10,150
H 58 in W 89 in
Mid-Hudson Inscape - Large Abstract Landscape Mixed Media Painting on Canvas
By Bruce Rubenstein
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The paintings of Bruce Rubenstein seamlessly marry sophistication with affordability. His expressive abstract landscape artwork 'Mid-Hudson Inscape' features whimsical details and vi...
Enamel
$3,500
H 24 in W 20 in D 2 in
Lunch at the Club, Mixed Media, Drawing , Archival Frame, Texas Artist, Lindbergh
Located in Houston, TX
"People, the human figure, fascinate me. Regardless of age or social status, I take particular interest in grasping the one moment that belongs solely to an individual." - Rosemary Mahoney...
Charcoal, Mixed Media, Carbon Pencil
Adagio Matinale XXIV
Located in AMSTERDAM, NH
Peter Peereboom (1952) graduated from the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. He has various solo shows on his name including Centre Pompidou Paris in ...
Mixed Media, Canvas, Wood, Paper, Charcoal, Acrylic, Photographic Paper
Sling Hash
By Leslie Bostrom
Located in Boston, MA
collage created in 1998, from the artists studio, on archival paper, smudges, intentional with use of graphite. Mixed media, graphite, drawing, pastels, text. signed L.B. lower righ...
Charcoal, Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Color Pencil, Graphite
$1,086Sale Price|63% Off
H 20 in W 14 in D 1 in
Ganesha, God of Success, Mixed Media on Paper, Yellow, grey, Skin "In Stock"
By Prokash Karmakar
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Prokash Karmakar - Ganesha - 20 x 14 inches (unframed size) Mixed Media on paper ** Cost is inclusive exclusive of shipment ( unframed ) The Indian Mythology God , Lord Ganesha , Th...
Paper, Mixed Media, Charcoal
Sun Song
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Matthew Marcot is an American, self-taught artist specializing in Abstract and Neo-Expressionism, and primary mediums are semiotics and collage. An unde...
Canvas, Charcoal, Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic
$19,679Sale Price|20% Off
H 25.6 in W 21.66 in D 1.19 in
Turquoise Girl with Gold, Mixed Media, Contemporary, Female Study, Board
By Charlie Mackesy
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
Turquoise Girl with Gold by Charlie Mackesy, mixed-media created using charcoal, gouache, and pastel on board. Contemporary figurative art. This painting by British artist Charlie M...
Charcoal, Mixed Media, Gouache, Pastel
Focus
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authent...
Canvas, Charcoal, Mixed Media, Acrylic
$960Sale Price|20% Off
H 30 in W 22 in D 0.1 in
Delaware River, female frontal nude, text, maps, green, energetic, profile
By Audrey Anastasi
Located in Brooklyn, NY
These collages were created first in the presence of a model, working quickly, in charcoal and pastel, and again, later, alone, furiously tearing and pasting images from magazines, v...
Paper, Mixed Media, Charcoal
Sold
H 11.82 in W 8.86 in D 0.04 in
Woman - Original Mixed Media by Nicola Simbari - 1964 ca.
By Nicola Simbari
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is an original mixed media artwork on paper realized by Nicola Simbari in 1964 ca. Hand-signed on the lower center in pencil. In very good conditions The artwork represents ...
Mixed Media