Description: As a New Jersey painters specialist who offers on eBay the most diverse array of New Jersey's most highly regarded iconic artists as well as some of the more obscure but significant and deserving past painters including Henry Gasser, Bernard Gussow, John Grabach, Israel Louis Winarsky, James Carlin, Gar Sparks, Frank Zuccarelli, Adolf Konrad, Gustave Cimiotti, etc, I am now offering this 25 by 30 inch wonderfully colorful and exuberant oil painting on canvas depicting Mexicans and Indians probably at a market and definitely in New Mexico. It was done in the 1960s by listed New Jersey artist Armando Sozio (1897-1966) who frequently visited New Mexico and got to know the people and the landscape. It is in excellent condition. It is signed on the stretcher. See the photos. It will be shipped for $60 via UPS. Armondo Sozio was born in Salerno, Italy in 1897. He was two when his step-mother followed the example of many Italian immigrants of the era and moved to Newark.N.J. After a National Academy stint, he enrolled at the Fawcett School in Newark.One of his teachers was John Grabach. Not unexpectedly, impasto-laden expressionist flourishes, reminiscent of Grabach's work from the 1920s and 1930s, appear intermittently in Sozio's work. He also used cubist structure and abstraction on many occasions to stunning effect. Given his modified impressionist approach to painting what is quite surprising is the exciting and compelling modernist work Sozio created between the 1940s and the 1960s. Using mainly pastels and watercolor, he variably combined a vibrant palette, abstraction and cubism to striking results, creating distinctly modernist American Scene paintings, depicting streetscapes, industrial vistas and genre renderings.These colorful pieces should be counted among his most original and memorable work. He also had a period in the 1960s during which he observed first-hand and painted landscapes and people of New Mexico and the Southwest, as exemplified by this painting. The New Jersey culturally iconic Rabin & Krueger Gallery in Newark held a one-man show for him in April of 1960 and was planning a book on his work when circumstances-Nathan Krueger's death in October of 1961 and Sozio's death in 1966-prevented its fruition.
Price: 1100 USD
Location: Westfield, New Jersey
End Time: 2025-01-12T12:58:45.000Z
Shipping Cost: 60 USD
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Item Specifics
All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Artist: Armando Sozio
Size: Medium
Signed: Yes
Material: Oil
Certificate of Authenticity (COA): No
Region of Origin: USA
Framing: Unframed
Subject: Mexican & Indians at Market
Size Type/Largest Dimension: Medium (Up to 30in.)
Personalize: No
Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
Type: Painting
Signed?: Armand Sozio
Year of Production: 1960
Original/Licensed Reproduction: Original
Item Height: 25
Style: Expressionism/Modernism
Original/Reproduction: Original
Features: One of a Kind (OOAK)
Production Technique: Oil Painting
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Width: 30
Handmade: Yes
Time Period Produced: 1960s
