Lot 185
  • 185

Salvatore Scarpitta

Estimate
80,000 - 100,000 GBP
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Description

  • Salvatore Scarpitta
  • Overpass
  • signed, titled and dated 1962 on the reverse
  • bandages and mixed media 
  • 143.7 by 160.6cm.; 56 5/8 by 63 1/4 in.

Provenance

Collection Stella Scarpitta, New York

Exhibited

New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, Salvatore Scarpitta: Racing Cars, 1965
Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, Scarpitta, 1977, p. 15, illustrated
New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, Salvatore Scarpitta, American Cycle 1958-1982, 1982

Literature

Tema Celeste, 1981, no. 31, p. 81, illustrated
E. Aldricht, 'Totems, Furrowed field and White Beaches', in: Art World, New York, December 1982, p. 6
Queens College, Differentia:  Review of Italian Thought, New York Spring 1988, no. 2, p. 130, illustrated
Luigi Sansone, Salvatore Scarpitta Catalogue Raisonné, Milan 2005, p. 184, no. 309, illustrated