Contemporary + Modern: Art & Design
Fri, Feb 24, 2023 01:00AM EST
Lot 86
NICK VACCARO "Song Dynasty" (Oil ca. 1961)
Sold for
$3,500
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| $5,000 | $250 |
| $10,000 | $500 |
| $20,000 | $1,000 |
| $50,000 | $2,500 |
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Nick Vaccaro
(Kansas, 1931-2002)
Song Dynasty, circa 1961
Oil on canvas
46" x 46"
An Abstract Expressionist composition in the manner of Willem de Kooning. Signed to the bottom right and titled to the reverse. Presented in the original thin wooden slat frame.
Nick Vaccaro was a professor and chairman of the drawing and painting department at the University of Kansas. As an artist, Vaccaro was the recipient of purchase awards from the San Francisco Museum of Art (1958), the Dallas Museum of Fine Art (1961), and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, and his work has additionally been exhibited in the Nelson Gallery of Art, Oklahoma Arts Center, Wichita Art Museum, and Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts.
Areas of dry cracking to the paint layer, which has resulted in flaking along the bottom edge.
(Kansas, 1931-2002)
Song Dynasty, circa 1961
Oil on canvas
46" x 46"
An Abstract Expressionist composition in the manner of Willem de Kooning. Signed to the bottom right and titled to the reverse. Presented in the original thin wooden slat frame.
Nick Vaccaro was a professor and chairman of the drawing and painting department at the University of Kansas. As an artist, Vaccaro was the recipient of purchase awards from the San Francisco Museum of Art (1958), the Dallas Museum of Fine Art (1961), and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, and his work has additionally been exhibited in the Nelson Gallery of Art, Oklahoma Arts Center, Wichita Art Museum, and Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts.