Lot 402

ALEXANDER CORAZZO (1908-1971) OIL ON ARTIST'S BOARD

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ALEXANDER CORAZZO (1908-1971) OIL ON ARTIST'S BOARD

Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500

Starting Bid: $750

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by Soulis Auctions
June 28, 2026 12:00 PM CDT
Live Auction
529 West Lone Jack-Lee’s Summit Rd
Lone Jack, MO, US 64070

Alexander Corazzo (Illinois, 1908-1971)

Untitled (A Cubist Influence Abstraction)

Mid 20th Century

The striking composition employing hard edge color fields and abstracted avian forms bright reds and yellows along with deep warm tones is signed lower right. The overlapping shapes each displays its own interesting texture, giving the shapes a vibrating quality that completes the effectiveness of the composition.

Alexander Corazzo was a French-born artist who emigrated to America in 1927 for study at the Saint Paul School of Art in Minnesota. He later studied with Laszlo Moholy-Nagy New Bauhaus in Chicago. In 1935, as an early abstractionist, he was invited by his peers to join Le Groupe Abstraction Creation of Paris. This association of artists devoted to abstract painting and sculpture included Pablo Picasso, Albert Gleizes, Wassily Kandinsky, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Marcel Duchamp. He was also a member of the American Abstract Artists group founded in 1936 in New York City, and was employed by the WPA around this same time. In 1940 he was put in charge of the Modern Art Exhibits at the Minnesota State fair while his own work was represented by Stendahl Galleries of Los Angeles. During World War II he applied his skills as an artist to do camouflage work, creating deceptive models of trucks, jeeps, tanks and planes out of scrap lumber and burlap that, when finished, would look like real formations from 10,000 feet. At the same time, he was creating abstract paintings that were exhibited at Guggenheim Art Rooms of the Century Gallery in New York and at the Americana exhibit in San Francisco where he won first prize in 1941, securing a $300 purchase award. His works were also exhibited at the National Gallery of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Whitney Museum. A retrospective exhibition was held at the University of Michigan Museum Museum of Art in 1976.

Board measures 11 x 9.5 with a framed size of 17 x 15 inches.

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  • Provenance: Private collection, Kansas City, Missouri.
  • Dimensions: Board measures 11 x 9.5 with a framed size of 17 x 15 inches.
  • Medium: Paintings
  • Circa: Mid 20th Century

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