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Elfi Schuselka Abstract Composition Mixed Media
Estimate:
$300 - $500
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$325
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Description
Elfi Schuselka (Austrian, b. 1940), Abstract Composition, Mixed Media on Paper, stamped "Studio / Elfi Schuselka" to verso, unframed. 39.5" H x 29.5" W. Provenance: From the collection of the artist. Note: Schuselka studied photography, art history, and theater at the University of Vienna. She moved to New York in 1964. Her work has been exhibited internationally in the United States, Italy, France, and Japan, as well as at the Cracovia Biennial, Yugoslavia, Ibiza Biennial, Spain, and the Sao Paulo Biennial. Her work is part of the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, and the International Centre of Graphic Arts, Slovenia. Long a regular exhibitor at the famed 55 Mercer Gallery, Schuselka is well-known in New York art circles together with her husband, Domenick Capobianco (American, b. 1928). Keywords: Painting, Drawing, Illustration, Works on Paper, Abstraction, Cy Twombly style, Surrealist, Surrealism, Maximalism, Pyramid, Rainbow, Polychrome, Second New York School, Women Artists, Contemporary Art