Domenick Capobianco Surrealist Oil on Canvas

Domenick Capobianco (American, b. 1928), Abstract Surrealist Composition, Oil on Canvas, depicting smoking candles on blue and red ground alongside a large dark color field center, apparently unsigned, "Studio Domenick Capobianco" stamp to side, unframed.

20" H x 24" W. 

Provenance: Property from the collection of the artist.

Note: Domenick Capobianco (American, b. 1928) artist, is a graduate of Washington University at St. Louis and a Rutgers Fellow (1979), and a Guggeheim Fellow (1984/85). Capobianco taught for many years on the faculty at Rutgers University, N.J.  His work is in the collections of the Academie des Beaux-Arts, Ljubjana, Slovenia; the Sammlung Albertina, Vienna, Austria ; L’Instituto per la Culturea e L’Arte, Catania, Italy; The Kharkiv Museum, Kharkiv, Ukraine; Le Musee d’Art Contemporain, Skopje, Macedonia; The M.V. Nesterov Museum, Ufa, Russia; The Newark Public Library, Newark, NJ; The Robert Blackburn Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; and the Weatherspoon Museum, Greensboro, N.C., among many others in Europe, Asia, and the U.S.  Long a regular exhibitor at the famed 55 Mercer Gallery, Capobianco is well-known in New York art circles together with his wife, the artist Elfi Schuselka (Austrian, b. 1940).

Keywords: Paintings, Oil painting, Works on Canvas, Abstraction, Surrealism, Second New York School, Post-War and Contemporary Art