SOLD Untitled (1965)

Oil & collage on canvas 19 x 13 inches Signed lower right Inscribed #X-2-D-65 verso Provenance: Estate of Robert Sarnoff .In his monograph for the Whitney Museum’s 1967 Marca-Relli retrospective, author William Agee mentions the artist’s return to paint and canvas for the materials of his collages. The dynamic gestural brushwork of Untitled (1965) points towards earlier periods in the artist’s career, when his collages “took on a trembling and convulsed motion” and the “figure is flattened against the picture plane in a frontal and hieratic pose.” As a first generation Abstract Expressionist, Marca-Relli holds an important place in the art of the 1950’s and 60’s. His contribution and commitment to collage was well noted in art historical circles, and the result was the artist’s inclusion, through contemporary purchases, in the permanent collections of many of the country’s most prestigious institutions. This list includes the Art Institute of Chicago, the Carnegie Institute, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. rcester Art Museum.