Domenick Capobianco Surrealist Works on Paper, 6

Domenick Capobianco (American, b. 1928), Six Surrealist Works on Paper, Mixed Media, each stamped "Studio Domenick Capobianco" verso, including:  "Man Afloat" titled and signed verso, "The Severed Head of Orpheus Afloat at Sea Still Sang" titled lower left, accompanied by poem by Capobianco attached verso, each unframed. 

Largest: 15" H x 22" W.

Provenance: From the collection of the artist. 

Note: Domenick Capobianco is a graduate of Washington University at St. Louis, a Rutgers Fellow (1979), and a Guggenheim Fellow (1984/85). He was an educator and mentor at Rutgers University. Capobianco’s work can be found in collections worldwide, including: The Academie des Beaux-Arts, Ljubjana, Slovenia, The Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria, and The M.V. Nesterov Museum, Ufa, Russia. Alongside his artist wife Elfi Schuselka (Austrian, b. 1940) he frequently exhibited with the famed 55 Mercer Gallery in New York. 

Keywords: Post-War and Contemporary Art, Abstraction, Second New York School, Monochrome, Ink, Eurydice, Mythology, Classical, Airplane, Biplane, 20th Century Art