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Conrad Marca-Relli 1VILLA NEUVE Signed Lithograph, Modernist Abstract, City Landscape, Collage, Flag1982
1982
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VILLA NEUVE is an original limited edition lithograph printed using hand lithography techniques on archival printmaking paper 100% acid free. VILLA NEUVE is an imaginative modernist abstract depicting a city landscape complete with suggestions of a flag pole, buildings, streets, and traffic circle. Marca-Relli uses his abstract collage-like forms to create an expressionistic urban landscape with cutout shapes of a dark black, round donut form nestled among burlap, striped fabric, newsprint, and painted textures all achieved with the magical lithographic method of making prints. VILLA NEUVE's neutral color palette of light blue, light brown, red, dark blue, cream beige, gray and black creates an outstanding visual attraction.
Print size - 22 x 27 inches, full bleed image, no margins, unframed, pencil signed by Marca-Relli
Edition size - 250, plus proofs
Year published - 1982
Printed at JK Fine Art Editions Co. NYC
About the artist -
Conrad Marca-Relli (born Corrado Marcarelli; June 5, 1913 – August 29, 2000) was an American artist who belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized across the Atlantic, including Paris. New York School Abstract Expressionism, represented by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Marca-Relli and others became a leading art movement of the postwar era.
Conrad Marca-Relli was known for his collage-making abilities in Cubist and Abstract Expressionist style as well as paintings. Conrad was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and during his childhood and youth in Europe, he received his first art lessons in Italy. Conrad Marca-Relli spent most of his professional career in New York City. In 1926, he settled in New York City where he studied at various schools including Cooper Union. From 1935 to 1938, he was a WPA artist with the Federal Art Project, and this job was his first opportunity to devote himself exclusively to his art work. It also brought him into contact with other New York modernists such as Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline.
From 1948 to 1949, he was again in Europe and turned to Surrealist circus and architectural themes influenced by Giorgio de Chirico and Henri Rousseau. In Rome, he completed his first body of important works, based on Italian Renaissance architectural themes and circus motifs. These paintings were later exhibited in New York City at the Niveau Gallery.
Marc-Relli returned to New York where he pursued a style of controlled, sharp edged, biomorphic shapes with urban themes. Conrad went to a trip to Mexico in 1953 where he was impressed by the contrasts between flat white adobe buildings and the black shadows on them from the brilliant sun. To achieve a similar look, Marca-Relli developed a collage method of sketching forms on bare canvas, cutting them out with razor blades, coating them with layers of paint, and attaching them to a supporting canvas in a rearranged juxtaposition. Between the attachments, he began adding paint and strips of canvas, which suggested abstract figures and anatomical fragments.
By 1960, his collages were totally nonobjective. On flat surfaces and in sculpture, he experimented with metal and vinyl sheets, which gave his work an industrial and simplified appearance. Marca-Relli is the collections of many museums including San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, MoMA, Guggenheim and the Smithsonian.
- Creator:Conrad Marca-Relli 1 (1913 - 2000, American)
- Creation Year:1982
- Dimensions:Height: 22 in (55.88 cm)Width: 27 in (68.58 cm)
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- Condition:Excellent condition, unframed, never been mounted, pencil signed inscribed P.P. (Printers Proof) aside from edition of 250, printers chop mark embossed lower corner, full bleed image no margins, from the master printers private collection.
- Gallery Location:Union City, NJ
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU832314060482
Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Conrad Marca-Relli, son of Italian parents was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1913 and is considered the father of the New York abstract expressionism. In 1930 he studied design at the Cooper Union for one year and worked for the Works Progress Administration until 1940. Conrad Marca-Relli served for the U.S. Army during World War II for four years, from 1941 to 1945. Till then, the work of Mark-Relli was characterized by his depictions of circus-themed or urban and architectural landscapes, the result of the influence of Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico. During the latest years of the 40’s, he returned to Manhattan and took part along with other artists, most of them war veterans, the "Downtown group" whose workshop was in Greenwich Village. In 1949 this group formed the New York School, in which artists like Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock and Robert Rauschenberg were also part of, and who dedicated its existence to explore the avant-garde of the moment. In 1948, Conrad Marca-Relli showed his work to the public for the first time in an exhibition organized by Leo Castelli called "Ninth Street Show”, considered as the first exhibition of abstract expressionism. During the era of the 50s, Marca-Relli definitely explores abstraction and combines it with elaborated collages. It is said that Mark-Relli began working the art of collage due to lack of paint, and then discovered how to represent some light effects like the reflection in certain surfaces such as adobe. As he was investigating this technique, his works were became increasingly complex, in the use of colors, shapes and textures. In these years, Marca-Relli taught at Yale University and bought a house at the Springs, in the vicinity of East Hampton, a community that began to develop as an artist colony. Interestingly, the home of Marca-Relli was beside Pollock’s, with whom he became close friends. It would be Marca-Relli himself who identified the body of his friend to the police the day of his death. In the 60s, Marca-Relli uses industrial vinyl to give texture to his works and shapes are outlined with painted, or real nails, emphasizing the three dimensional plasticity. In 1967 he received his first retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum of Modern Art. Conrad Marca-Relli died in 2000 after living in cities like London, Paris, Ibiza and Parma.
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