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THBLot of 10 Achillo Achi Sullo, 'Bullfight scenes' MCM ink drawing, Mexico City, estate stamp.
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Buy NowOct 30, 2024 - Nov 24, 2024
Impressionist & Modernist Paintings & Drawings including important early Modernists: Picasso, Leger, Cortez, Modigliani & Thomas Hart Benton, Offers welcome. Also: Jewelry, Sculpture & Furniture King Art & Antiques kking15259@aol.com
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Achillo “Achi” Sullo (Massachusetts, 1922 – 2013) Untitled (bullfighting scene from Mexico City), circa 1953 ink and wash drawings on paper Artist’s estate stamp to the verso Dimensions: 8.5" W x 11" H Provenance: artist’s estate. His artwork sells for up to $2000. From the internet: Achillo “Achi” Sullo, was born in Medford, Massachusetts in 1922. A first-generation Italian, he graduated from Dorchester High School and served four years in the Engineering Corps. He was a veteran of WWII and a D-day survivor. He began his artistic exploration by painting camouflage patterns onto army vehicles. This was common practice for enlisted artists in the war effort. Ironically, Ellsworth Kelly, best known for his hard-edge painting, also served in the war beginning 1943 and joined the 603rd Engineers Camouflage Battalion, which filled its ranks with artists and was known as the Ghost Army. The GI Bill enabled Sullo to attend The Museum School of Fine Arts, Boston, for four years with a fifth year of study in Italy and France. He graduated from the Museum School in 1949. Kelly also attended The Boston Museum School around the same time starting in 1946. The Boston Museum School of Fine Arts produced a number of artistic luminaries of the American abstract movement who all attended around the same time as Achi Sullo (class of ’49). Most notably artists Ellsworth Kelly (class of 48), Cy Twombly (class of ’49). A modernist throughout his career, his early works of the 1950s were influenced by post-impressionism and expressionism. This was probably due to his year abroad in Italy and France after the war. After dabbling in abstract expressionism in the late ’50s and early ’60s his mature style settled into organic, hard-edged abstraction.
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“handling wear, corner wear, edge wear”
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