Vintage 1960 ACHI SULLO 'Pagan Holiday' ABSTRACT Mid Century MODERN Oil Painting

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Item: 156494144078

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Artist:Achillo Sullo
Signed By:Achillo Sullo
Size:Medium
Signed:Yes
Period:Post-War (1940-1970)
Material:Canvas,Paper
Region of Origin:Boston, MA
Framing:Unframed
Subject:Holidays
Type:Painting
Year of Production:1960
Original/Licensed Reproduction:Original
Theme:Art
Style:Abstract,Art Nouveau,Expressionism,Modernism,Postmodernism,Urban Art
Features:One of a Kind (OOAK)
Production Technique:Oil Painting
Country/Region of Manufacture:United States
Handmade:Yes
Time Period Produced:1960-1969

ORIGINAL 1960 ACHILLO ‘ACHI’ SULLO (1922-2013) ‘PAGAN HOLIDAY’ OIL PAINTINGThis is a wonderful original. A few years ago, I acquired part of the estate of the Boston artist Achillo ‘Achi’ Sullo. For those not familiar with the artist, I have included his biography below. There were hundreds of works on paper as well as some oil on canvases. I sold nearly the entire estate to various dealers. I actually kept a couple of the better oil on canvas works that hung in my house for a while. This is one of the ones that hung in my home and due to limited wall space I am now offering it here. A large oil on canvas measuring 24 x 31 inches. Painting is in excellent condition. Some faint craquelere and a couple of specks of paint loss along the very edge but really a beautiful vibrant example of the artist’s abstract work. This work is signed, dated, and titled on the back of the canvas. Unframed. Really a great piece. FREE SHIPPING ANYWHERE IN THE UNITED STATES!For those not familiar with the artist, his biography from askart reads: “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 master of color and design, Sullo dedicated a lifetime to his painting and sculpture. A modernist throughout his career, his early works of the 1950’s 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 50’s and early 60’s his mature style settled into organic, hard-edged abstraction. Sullo was a talented and prolific artist, though you have never seen his work in a museum. Aside from a few gallery exhibitions, Sullo never tried to sell his work or share it with the world. To earn a living, he was a manager at Gilbert & Davis Catering in Roxbury, Massachusetts and was a member of Union Local 26. He also maintained a studio in Roxbury for many years. Sullo covered his canvases in color, creating bold abstract curves of salmon and rust, emerald and orange, and carved plywood into similarly sinuous shapes, all for his own enjoyment. He was a recluse. He told younger artists about his meeting with Picasso in Italy, how he made his way through art school, and, finally, how he decided to stop selling his work to the public. Because of this decision, much of his estate is intact. Having never left his studio, many of the works are unsigned. There is also little indication given as to how the works should be hung.Sullo’s only known museum exhibition was a one-man show at the deCordova Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts titled Roxbury Pastorals, Paintings and Drawings by Achi Sullo, in November of 1958. The exhibition was organized by the Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego. At the time he lived in a small studio apartment near Roxbury Crossing. In these early years the city of Boston was his favorite subject matter and his representational paintings revealed his familiarity with and affection for the neighborhood in which he lived. Christian Science Monitor art critic Dorothy Adlow wrote of the show at the time. “To Mr. Sullo, Roxbury has been as provocative, as artistically inspiring as the landmarks of Paris, Venice, Ischia and Taxco. He substitutes neo-Gothic spires for a Chartres skyline, and the Roxbury Standpipe for an obelisk. Roxbury can kindle this painter to rapturous outburst, into profuse patterns based on fact but transformed into animated all-over design.”The best-known exhibition of works from his mature style was Quadriga, which took place at Boston City Hall in January of 1974. It was a four man show and the title Quadriga comes from the Latin word for a chariot drawn by four horses abreast. Boston Globe art critic Robert Taylor wrote of Sullo’s works included in the exhibition: “The pacemaker is an excellent abstract painter named Achi Sullo who works on canvas with oil and acrylic. Restricting himself to a fundamental vocabulary of flat, organic forms contained by heavy contours, Sullo’s paintings have both a vitality that derives from high-key colors and a subtlety of design. Positive and negative spaces, the handling of lights and darks, the acrobatic drama of his bounding lines risk decoration but don’t yield to it.” Achi Sullo died on December 28, 2013 at the age of 91 in Wendell, Massachusetts.” CHECK THE PICTURES ON THIS EXCELLENT PIECE!!! DONT MISS THIS CHANCE!!!Shipping and handling can be calculated based on the ebay shipping calculator. If you have any questions regarding the work, please dont hesitate to ask. Pictures are an excellent indication of condition. Though the shipping says it will take 5 days of handling, usually items are shipped much faster and if you pay right away, the item most likely will go out in the next day or two. If there is any problems with the item please dont hesitate to email me. I guarantee and stand 100% behind everything I sell. No reason to open up any sort of cases. Just simply contact me and I will handle any and all problems. Out of the nearly 500 items I ship around the world every year, a very few of them occasionally get lost or broken. I insure every item and will handle all insurance claims and make sure you are reimbursed 100%. Check my feedback. After nearly 15 years of selling on ebay, my reputation speaks for itself. If you are not happy with your purchase, I will work to make sure you are. Thanks again for your interest and bidding.

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