Nicola Simbari "Ida" Acrylic on Canvas

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  Nicola Simbari (Italian, 1927 -2012).  Nicola Simbari acrylic on canvas "Ida", depicting a woman against a watery backdrop; signed to lower right, features a brass tag to bottom middle of canvas border that reads "Ida Nicola Simbari", and marked to back "Ida Oil on Canvas Nicola Simbari"; was purchased by consignor directly from the artist; includes Certificate of Authenticity signed by Simbari and dated October 14, 1993; measures approximately 37-3/4" x 37-1/2" with gilded frame and has a sight image of approximately 31" x 31"; in Very Good condition.

   

  Though born in San Lucido, Calabria, Nicola Simbari was raised in Rome, where his father was an architect for the Vatican. Rome's art masterpieces so impressed Simbari that, by age 13, he decided to study art and enrolled at the Accademia delle Belle Arti. In the 1940s he began devoting himself to painting in a studio at Via del Babuino in central Rome. He began to develop a distinct style stemming from impressions of life, nature, and the Mediterranean, impressions which abstractly reflect themselves in the purely vivid and passionate colors of his work. Simbari's originality and commercial appeal brought his art to exhibitions in London and New York by the 1950s, solidifying his international reputation. He saw success almost immediately, and shortly after a one-man show in London, he was commissioned to paint murals for the Italian Pavilion at the 1958 World's Fair in Brussels. His show "Le Cirque," reflected the same excitement on his canvasses as is felt at an actual circus. The show was highly acclaimed in Paris, New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. "When I paint, I'm like a writer," Simbari states, "I must have something to say. My paintings are like entries in a diary because they are all reactions to things I have seen or felt." Mediterranean landscapes and paintings of contemporary European life are usually Simbari's subjects, although he also paints scenes of the Southwest. "There's terrific drama in the desert. It's mysterious and magical, and the most dramatic natural sculpture I've ever seen". Major American and English critics have called Simbari "thoroughly disarming"; one who paints "boldly and in a state of excitement"; "whose personal enthusiasm and enormous zest for life have much the same infectious appeal as do his paintings." Using stunning colors and favoring brilliant tones, he paints with a palette knife and achieves great depth with this technique. His paintings are full of light and energy. A semiabstract impressionist, Simbari is considered by many to be Italy's most important artist in recent history. His works can be found in numerous museums and private and corporate collections around the world including the Bank of Tokyo and the Christian Dior Collection in Paris; Italian State Railways in Rome; Liberty Company in London; and Tulsa Bank of Commerce, Cincinnati Fine Arts Department, Exxon Corporation, General Mills Corporation,and Pepsico, in America. Nicola Simbari died on December 11, 2012 in Frascati, Lazio, Italy.
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