Salvatore Scarpitta

Contemporary Art Museum Houston Annual Gala & Art Auction, 1977
Acquired by the present owner from the above sale

Houston, Robinson Galleries, Scarpitta, February - April 1979
Houston, Art Car Museum, Salvatore Scarpitta - Outlaw Art at Racing Speeds, February - May 2001, p. 10, illustrated
New York, Marianne Boesky Gallery, Salvatore Scarpitta: Trajectory, May - June 2011, p. 53, illustrated 

Luigi Sansone, ed., Salvatore Scarpitta: Catalogue Raisonné, Milan, 2005, cat. no. 357, p. 195, illustrated

This work is in very good condition overall. All of the elements are well intact. There is some very light wear, mostly at the lower corners, and some light dust accumulation noted. There are a few scattered pinpoint accretions.
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“Canvas: twisted, stretched, slashed, ripped, taut as the hood on an ancient touring car, as the cover of a prairie schooner, swollen as a sail flapping in the wind, rigid as a bandage, cheerful as a tablecloth stained during a convivial feast…this alpha and omega of the post-medieval painter and of the modern artist is here in Scarpitta elevated to the only material with which he works.” (Cesare Vivaldi, “Salvatore Scarpitta,” Quaderni di Arte Attuale, Rome, 1959)