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JOSEPH STELLA American Futurist Signed Still Life browse these categories for related items... Directory: Fine Art: Drawings: Pre 1940: Item # 1082057
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| Joseph Stella (Italian/American, 1877-1946). Subject: still life with fruit and bread. Provenance: Martin Diamond Fine Arts, New York, New York (with label on verso); Rabin and Krueger, Inc. (also with label on verso). Measures: 12 x 8 3/4 inches, image size. Framed under glass, with matting, measures: 21 x 18 inches. Medium: crayon + pencil on paper. Signed in pencil lower right. Estimated age: 1925-1945. Condition: very good condition with lite handling wear. Joseph Stella was born in Muro Lucano, a village close to Naples. When he was 19, he went to America to study medicine. In 1897 he began to paint and enrolled as a full-time student at the Art Students League and then at the New York School of Art, studying under William Merritt Chase. Stella's earliest painting emulates his teacher as well as Diego Velázquez, Édouard Manet, and Frans Hals. In 1910 Stella went back to Europe. He spent time in Italy and then went to Paris, where he met Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and a number of the Italian futurists, including Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, and Gino Severini. After he returned to the United States he began his first large futurist painting, "Battle of Lights, Coney Island." Stella refined and applied his futurist approach to the American industrial scene, glorifying it by lending to it a precisionist character not unlike that of Charles Sheeler and Niles Spencer. Stella became an American citizen in 1923. He made numerous trips abroad during the 1920s and 1930s. Visits to North Africa and Barbados inspired him to depict the spirit of a tropical environment in lush color and strong, centrally located forms. He also composed small, delicate, and intimate works somewhat in the spirit of Paul Klee and Arthur Dove. He died in New York City on Nov. 5, 1946. | ||
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