Tuesday 11 October 2022
Afro Basaldella, Italian 1912-1976 - Untitled, 1964; ink, gouache and...
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Description
Afro Basaldella,
Italian 1912-1976 -
Untitled, 1964;
ink, gouache and mixed media on paper, signed and dated lower right 'Afro 64', 17.8 x 18.8 cm (ARR)
Provenance: Winston Graham (1908-2003), the writer of the beloved Poldark novels and thence by descent; private collection, purchased from the above
Note: This is a classic example of the artist's mature style, demonstrating his assimilation of both European and North American Post-War abstraction. Afro Basaldella was part of a vital generation of artists that emerged from Italy in the 1950s, including Alberto Burri and Lucio Fontana, and his work combined the energy of Abstract Expressionism with the refined palette of historical Venetian painting. The artist visited and exhibited in New York during the 1950s alongside artists such as Jackson Pollock and Archille Gorky, and his close friend Willem de Kooning lived and worked for a time at his studio in Rome in 1959.
Afro is currently the subject of a major retrospective at the CaPesaro Museum in Venice, and his works are held in major public collections across the globe, including the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, MoMA, New York and the Centre Pompidou, Paris.
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