Name: Untitled
Brand: Sandro Chia (b. 1946)
Price: 20000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Sandro Chia (b. 1946)
Untitled
signed and dated 'Sandro Chia 1980' (lower right)
oil on paper laid down on canvas
57¾ x 48in. (147 x 122cm.)
Executed in 1980

Provenance:
Stephen Mazoh & Co., Inc., New York.
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1983).
Anon. sale, Sotheby's New York, 3 October 1991, lot 171.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Exhibited:
Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, New Expressionism: Works from Toronto Collector, 1983.

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Lot Essay

Sandro Chia is known as the leading member of the Italian Transvanguardia movement that was at its peak during the 1980s. Part of the wider movement of international Neo-Expressionist painters, it was seen as a reaction to the minimalism and conceptual art that had dominated the 1970s. The present work exhibits all of the features of this expressive visual language: intense subjectivity, the portrayal of the human body in an abstract yet recognizable manner, vivid colour, as well as rough and emotional handling of materials.