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Felix Ruvolo
"Untitled" - Modified Plate IX, Lithograph from "10 West Coast Artists"

Mid 20th Century

$2,500
£1,868.74
€2,183.25
CA$3,516.84
A$3,559.32
CHF 2,040.81
MX$43,170.06
NOK 23,733.83
SEK 24,158.75
DKK 16,320.55

About the Item

"Untitled" - Modified Plate IX, Lithograph from "10 West Coast Artists" Bold piece by Felix Ruvolo (American, 1912-1992). This lithograph is an augmented version of Ruvolo's piece "Samson and Delilah," taking the base image and adding three large purple strokes on top of it. The shapes in this lithograph are primarily organic, with curving lines and edges. The bold oranges, reds, and pinks add to the lively nature of this piece. The handling of line and shape is reminiscent of artists such as Joan Miro. Image, 30.25" x 22.25" Signed in bottom right "Ruvolo" From a collection of the artists work. Felix Ruvolo was born in New York City, but raised in the home of his grandparents in Sicily, Italy where he first studied with an Italian artist. At age 12, he returned to the home of his parents, who soon moved to Chicago. They were aware of his intense interest in art and had him continue studies with a local artist and then at the Chicago Art Institute. By 1938 he was exhibiting regularly and was accorded his first invitation to participate in an American Federation of Arts traveling exhibition. Invitations to exhibitions at other major institutions followed--the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Carnegie Institute, the Phillips Gallery Museum, the Pennsylvania Academy, the Walker Art Center, the “Contemporary American Painting” surveys at the Krannert Museum from 1948 to 1961, the Sao Paulo Biennials in Brazil, the Galerie Creuse in Paris. He was represented in the ground-breaking exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1951, “Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America.” His many one-man shows included those at the Durand Ruel Gallery, the Catherine Viviano Gallery, the Grand Central, the Poindexter Gallery in New York and the University of Southern California. His works entered public and private collections such as the Chicago Art Institute, the Krannert Museum, the Walker Art Center, the Oakland Museum of Art, and the Aukland City Museum in New Zealand. His work was reproduced in national magazines and in anthologies published by the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, and Albright Museum in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum, the American Encyclopedia, the Dictionaire de la Peinture Abstraite, and Il Giornale D'Italia. His teaching career began at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1945 and continued until 1948 when he moved with his wife Mardi to New York. Mills College in Oakland had established a program of bringing distinguished artists, such as Fernand Leger, to the campus as guest instructors. Felix was invited for the summer session of 1948; during that sojourn, he had solo exhibitions in the Mills College Art Gallery and at the De Young Museum in San Francisco. At that time he met many Bay Area artists who were to become life-long friends of the Ruvolos. His national reputation had been firmly established, when in 1949 Felix was extended the invitation for appointment to the faculty on the Berkeley campus. Ruvolo first settled in Walnut Creek, and later Berkeley, where he continued to teach at the University of Berkeley.
  • Creator:
    Felix Ruvolo (1912 - 1992, American)
  • Creation Year:
    Mid 20th Century
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 30.25 in (76.84 cm)Width: 22.25 in (56.52 cm)Depth: 0.13 in (3.31 mm)
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  • Condition:
    Edge wear and toning consistent with age. Minor drip stains visible along left edge. One inch tear along right edge has been stabilized. Acid stain from previous tape in bottom left corner and along top edge.
  • Gallery Location:
    Soquel, CA
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: RJA 102441stDibs: LU54218465022

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