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Domenick Capobianco "Grid + Blocks" Sculpture
Estimate:
$1,000 - $2,000
Sold
$700
Live Auction
New York City Estate Auction, June 23
Description
Domenick Capobianco (American, b. 1938), "Grid + Blocks", Kinetic Painted Wood Sculpture, December 1965, with 441 blocks with different colors on each side for multiple configurations, signed in ink, dated, and stamped "Studio / Domenick Capobianco" to verso. 42.25" H x 42.25" W x 2.25" D. Provenance: From the estate of the artist. Note: Domenick Capobianco is a graduate of Washington University at St. Louis, a Rutgers Fellow (1979), and a Guggenheim Fellow (1984/85). He was an educator and mentor at Rutgers University. Capobianco�s work can be found in collections worldwide, including: The Academie des Beaux-Arts, Ljubjana, Slovenia, The Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria, and The M.V. Nesterov Museum, Ufa, Russia. Alongside his artist wife Elfi Schuselka (Austrian, b. 1940) he frequently exhibited with the famed 55 Mercer Gallery in New York. Keywords: Post War & Contemporary Art, Three-dimensional art, 3-D, Painting, Geometric, Second New York School, Luis Tomasello style