-Blues- Oil on Canvas by Leonard Contino, 1940-2016

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Last Auction of 2021, Furniture-Art-Lighting

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Dec 30, 2021

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• Lot Description
  Large oil on canvas titled -Blues- by Brooklyn native, Leonard Contino (1940-2016) This piece is dated 5/7/1968 and is an early piece by this fantastic artist, it is unframed and has a couple of marks to the body but still shows well, deep colors and no rips.
  
  Measurements:
  44 inches wide x 44 inches high x 3/4 inches thick
  
  A self-taught artist who always sketched and drew as a child, Leonard Contino first used paint to pin-stripe cars and hot rods in his Brooklyn neighborhood.
  
  In 1962, at the age of 19, he suffered a severe spinal cord injury in a diving accident, which left him a quadriplegic and confined to a wheelchair.
  
  While receiving treatment at the Rusk Institute, he met another patient, artist Mark di Suvero.
  
  Encouraged by Mark di Suvero, Contino, using a brace for his hand, started to make drawings and eventually to paint.
  
  Contino's first show was at the seminal Soho gallery, Park Place.
  
  A hard-edged geometric abstract painter for over forty years, Contino's works include sculpture, wall reliefs, and collages.
  
  His paintings are in a number of museums and private collections including the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Foundation of Contemporary Art, Geneva.
  
  Contino's work, which has been described as precisionist and visionary, represents a relentless exploration of pictorial space using dynamic geometric forms.
  
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  Condition

  Snags,scratches and punctures to canvas, needs stretching.
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