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  Giuseppe Napoli “Shamballa” Oil on board 1965

  GIUSEPPE NAPOLI (1929-1967) Italian / American

  “Shamballa” 1965

  Oil on board

  Signed: Napoli (scrafitto on front), Giuseppe Napoli 1965 “Shamballa”

  (on back of board), Giuseppe Napoli (signed twice on stretcher)

  H: 24” x W: 20”

  A profoundly dynamic Abstract Expressionist painting by New York artist, Giuseppe Napoli. The painting is painted on board which is affixed to stretcher bars by staples.

  Giuseppe Napoli was part of the New York School of the 1950’s and 60’s working out of a small studio in Greenwich Village. Napoli participated in numerous exhibitions but unfortunately his career was cut short by his suicide in 1967 the result of suffering from periods of depression.

  Just as “Starry Night” is widely considered to have reflected the mental state of Van Gogh shortly before his death; this painting may also have reflected the mental state of Giuseppe Napoli who ended his own life only two years after creating this remarkable painting. The vigorous, heavy impasto, the ominous sun made impotent by the bold black ring that surrounds it and the jumbled landscape below, could be symbolic of the hope-against-hope, that eventually prevailed.

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  Hubert Schmalix “Häuserbild” Oil on Canvas 1989

  HUBERT SCHMALIX (1952-) Austria

  Häuserbild 1989

  Oil on canvas

  Signed and dated on back: Schmalix 89

  Exhibited: Galerie Krinzinger Vienna 1990 (Solo exhibition)

  Illustrated: Nach Schiele, Tobias G. Natter and Thomas Trummer (Köln, Germany: Atelier Augarten, DuMont, 2006), p 142.

  Provenance: Private Collection Vienna

  For related works by Hubert Schmalix see: Hubert Schmalix, Lóránd Hegyi exhibition catalog (Museum Moderner Kunst StiftungLudwig Wien) November 19, 1994 – January 1995.

  H: 85” x W: 49”

  Hubert Schmalix was born in Graz, Austria, on December 17, 1952 and studied at the Vienna Art Academy from 1971 to 1976. By 1979 Schmalix was showing work at the forward-looking exhibition ‘Europa 79 – Kunst der 80er Jahre’ in Stuttgart. In 1983 the London Tate Gallery invited Schmalix to present work at ‘New Art’, an important survey of contemporary art. Schmalix has become well-known world-wide as an exponent of ‘New Art’, working with a retrospective glance at both classical art history and modern art. Schmalix focuses on the world of things and the human figure. Although the expressive gesture was the dominant feature of his 1980s work, it yielded early in the 1990s to stringent tectonic composition. In 1984 Hubert Schmalix went to the Philippines and on to the US, moving to Los Angeles in 1987. In 1986-87 Schmalix taught at the Academy for the Decorative and Applied Arts in Vienna and from 1997 he has been a professor at the Vienna Art Academy. Schmalix is a visiting professor at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). In 1993 his work was featured at the Venice Biennale and in 1998 he was awarded the Fine Art Prize of the City of Vienna. Schmalix has done several large fresco cycles in Salzburg and his work has been shown extensively at numerous international solo and group shows and most recently at Art Basel 2006.

  The Kunstforum in Vienna is dedicating a major retrospective show to Hubert Schmalix from May 6^th – July 12^th, 2015.

  “I’m not nervous or angry when I paint, but well rested and concentrated. Each stroke of the brush is important! I’ve painted a whole lot of beautiful pictures this way.” (Hubert Schmalix)

   

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  Joseph Raskin, Seaside scene, Oil on Canvas c. 1920 -1925

  JOSEPH RASKIN   (1897-1981) USA

  Seaside scene  c. 1920 -1925

  Oil on canvas, gold leaf frame

  Signed:  Jos. Raskin  (lower left)

  For more information see: Who Was Who in American Art,
  (Madison, Conn.: Sound View Press, 1985), p. 505

  Canvas: 25 1/4” x 21 1/4”
  Frame: 31 1/4” x 26 3/4”

  Price: $35,000

  Born in Nogaisk, Russia, Joseph Raskin made a name for himself as a painter in New York City, where he was also recognized as an etcher, teacher and writer.  He studied at the National Academy of Design and, in 1921, received a fellowship from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation.  A member of the American Artists Congress, Raskin’s work was exhibited at the Schervee Gallery (Boston) in 1927, Tricker Gallery in 1939, the Schneider-Gabriel Gallery in 1941, Steinway Hall in 1942, and the American Artists Association in 1945.  Raskin’s work may be found in several museum collections including the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art  and National Academy of Design, both in Washington, D.C.

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  Oscar B. Erickson, “Early Morning Rockport”, Oil on canvas c. 1940

  OSCAR B. ERICKSON (1883 – 1970) American

  Early Morning Rockport c. 1940

  Oil on canvas

  Marks: Original exhibition label verso: THE NORTHWEST ART LEAGUE,

  INC., Oscar B. Erickson, Early Morning Rockport, oil

  For brief bibliographical listing see: Who Was Who in American Art,

  (Madison, Conn.: Sound View Press, 1985), p. 189.

  Canvas (sight): H: 21” x W: 23”

  Frame: H: 26 1/2” x W: 28 1/2”

  Oscar Erickson was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  He studied painting and printmaking at the Milwaukee Art League and later at the Herron Art Institute of Chicago. He exhibited at the Chicago Academy of the Fine Arts, the Hoosier Salon from 1927 to 1942, the Illinois State Museum, and the Norwegian Club.