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Elfi Schuselka "Homage to Magritte" Silkscreen
Estimate:
$100 - $200
Sold
$50
Live Auction
Showplace Backstage, March 13
Description
Elfi Schuselka (Austrian, b. 1940), "Homage to Magritte", Silkscreen on Toned Paper, artist proof, signed in pencil to lower right, inscribed "Happy Birthday!!! Love Elfi" to lower center and "preuve" lower left, silver-tone metal frame. Image: 21" H x 29.5" W; frame: 21.75" H x 30" 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: Prints, Multiples, Serigraph, Sky rock, Rene Magritte, Surrealism, Surrealist, Whimsical, Abstract, Abstraction, Second New York School, 20th Century Art, Women Artists, Post-War and Contemporary Art