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Circle Auction is pleased to present Modern + Contemporary: Art & Design, curated selections for your modern home. Highlighting the sale are paintings by Henri Maik, Robert Sudlow, Peter Max, Wilbur Niewald, Archie Scott Gobber, Antonio Diego Voci, and Ed Navone; contemporary realist works by Jacob Collins, Richard Maury, Jacob Pfeiffer, and Richard Thomas Davis. Pottery and prints by Robert Rauschenberg, Jacques Hnizdovsky, and Victor Babu; and modern designs by Charles & Ray Eames, Charlotte Perriand, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Florence Knoll, Eero Saarinen, and Cedric Hartman. Circle Auction info@circle-auction.com
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Edward Navone Acrylic on Canvas (1972)
Lot 18

Edward Navone Acrylic on Canvas (1972)

Estimate: $1,000 - $2,000
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Edward Navone

(California/ Kansas, 1937-2024)

Untitled (541), 1972

Acrylic and graphite on unstretched canvas

57 3/4" x 117"

 

From the artist's estate. Signed and dated to the bottom right. The canvas is outfitted with wooden cleats along the top edge and bottom edge for wall hanging, which may be removed for rolled shipping. The cleat pieces measure approximately 58" in length (half the width of the canvas), designed to be joined together to stretch the full width of the canvas.

 

Ed Navone received a BA from San Jose State University in 1959 and an MA from the University of California Berkeley in 1962. He taught fine art for 45 years, most notably as a Professor of Art at Washburn University from 1964-2007. Navone's work has been exhibited in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Paul Art Center, Springfield Art Center, and numerous universities across the country. He even participated in shows in Ireland and Greece. Navone also served as Assistant Director of the Mulvane Art Museum from 1964-1979, and the Mulvane holds over 100 of his creations, including a major suite of 34 drawings inspired by Dante's Inferno.

 

Navone's style as an artist evolved over the years, but in retrospect we can observe common themes: "I plead guilty to an indulgence in color and texture," he once quipped, adding, "A dietary approach to art is not mine." Navone believed that fine art, even abstract, must begin in the real world: narrative, mood, sense, memory. His most frequent inspiration was the opera he regularly played while painting, drawing from the melodrama to catalyze emotion into visual expression. In 1993, Navone described his "fascination with the juxtaposition of tactile, earthbound surfaces and the kind of space best experienced from the air and recorded in satellite imagery. The result is evocative of landscape, but one strewn with decaying discarded items: engines, tools, gauges, and even other pictures."

Condition

Good condition. There are some light brown spots in the top right corner. Some rippling to the canvas from rolled storage, which should relax with time when hung.

Overall Dimensions
Height: 57.75 in
Width: 117.00 in
Depth: 0.50 in

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