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#521: ITALO SCANGA (1932 - 2001)
Charcoal on paper, 39 1/2 x 29 1/8 in., signed & dated lower left, Italo Scanga 1981; with a customized frame & stand.
From the catalogue of the current exhibit (Feb. 2003 - Aug. 2004) at the Berkeley Museum of Art, Turning Corners: "Scanga was born in Southern Italy in 1932 and immigrated to the United States in 1947. He imbued his work with a highly personalized symbolic language based on his own émigré experience—his rural Calabrian heritage, Italian culture, Catholicism, and humanism. Scanga's passion for experimentation allowed him to push artistic boundaries, often by combining nontraditional materials—found objects (brooms, candelabras, a bronze eagle in the BAM sculptures), glass, hardware, mass-produced paintings of saints, wood, and ceramic. Scanga fostered this passion for experimentation in the artists he encountered as a teacher at the Pilchuck Glass School, established by Dale Chihuly in the 1970s as a place for artists to explore the use of glass in their work...Scanga also influenced emerging artists at UC San Diego, where he taught from 1978 to the end of his life." Other artists featured in this show include Jackson Pollock and Alexander Calder. More information about the artist is available at www.ITALOSCANGA.ORG.
Estimate: 500.00 - 700.00 Sold at $275.00
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#523: TRUMAN CAPOTE & FRIEND, ATTRIBUTED TO HENRY CLARKE
(1918-1996)
Black & white photograph, 13 5/16 x 15 15/16 in.
Note: Clarke was born in Los Angeles. In 1949 he
moved to Paris and worked for Harper's Bazaar.
The next year he began a prolific collaboration
with the English, French and American editions of
Vogue. He was also a celebrity photographer.
Estimate: 100.00 - 200.00 Sold at $375.00
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