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Untitled (1963)
Oil on canvas, 62" x 50" (frame 63" x 51"
Inscribed and dated "Grillo 63" lower right
Provenance: Personal collection of Robert Green, John Grillo's primary dealer
Exhibitions: 2012 John Grillo: The Birth of Abstract Expressionism, Arteltalia Reno, NV
Bibliography: John Grillo - Abstract Expressionism - Beyond the Fifties with forward by Donald Kuspit, reproduced p.35.
Inscribed "Grillo 63" lower right
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63" x 51"
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"Why do I use yellow? For one thing I feel the canvas expands – there is somehow more light and atmosphere, at least for me now, in the use of yellow. I'm concerned with space – atmosphere and light – but to capture these phenomena and transform them into a work of art is a strange process. It could be magic, faith or almost anything you want to call it. I have the canvas before me and I consciously choose the primary colors – red, yellow, blue. After hours, days or weeks, the painting becomes essentially yellow."
–John Grillo
A leading master of the second generation of Abstract Expressionists, Grillo's works often contained geometric objects and shapes amidst his gestural brushwork.