nicola simbari - Wally Findlay Galleries

EST. 1870
ART
WA L LY F I N D L AY
1 6 5 W O RT H AV E N U E
PA L M B E A C H , F L 3 3 4 8 0
(561) 655 2090
N I C O L A S I M B A R I PALM BEACH 2011
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Wally Findlay Galleries
is proud to present this collection of paintings by
Nicola Simbari. Since 1956 Wally
Findlay Galleries has exhibited Simbari’s art in Chicago, Palm Beach, New York, Beverly Hills, Paris, and London,
covering the artistic career of one of the most beloved and innovative contemporary artist of his generation.
Early
in his career
followed by
led
To
Miró,
Simbari
was mainly interested in the avant-garde movement.
Braque
was his first
but gradually he became involved in an effort to tell a story with his paintings.
to a more introverted approach, meanwhile developing an admiration for
Gauguin, Van Gogh
God,
This
change
and de
Staël.
those who know his work today, it may come as a surprise to learn that his early work, resulting from the
more introverted approach, consisted mainly of very small paintings done in egg tempera and entirely with brushes,
somewhat in the manner of
Vermeer, whom he still greatly admires. In these small paintings the colors were somber
and much ochre and gray were employed.
Simbari
gradually found himself freed from influences, developed the style now recognized as
defines himself as a figurative artist who went through
Simbaresco. He
Abstract Expressionism, Geometric Abstraction
and a
number of other styles of painting, but who has always been and still remains a figurative painter because of his
greatest interest: the human narrative.
PALM BEACH 2011
SEVEN DECADES OF REPRESENTATION
MERCATO, 1970
23 3/4 X 31 3/4 IN. OIL ON CANVAS 133791
L’ATELIER BLANC,1973
45 1/4 X 58 IN. OIL ON CANVAS 133919
ISCHIA, 1980
29 X 39 3/8 IN. OIL ON CANVAS 129125
CUMANA, 1987
55 X 63 IN. OIL ON CANVAS 104142
ENTR’ACTE, 1976
32 X 39 3/4 IN. OIL ON CANVAS 133918
DONNA IN GIARDINO, c. 1980
28 X 39 3/4 IN. OIL ON PAPER 133718
“Simbari,
an Italian by birth, is part of a generation of painters, writers, film directors and superstars
who, in the early
Fellini
and
1950’s,
Rossellini
and
in
Rome,
gave the world its first glimpse of post-war
Lollobridgida
and
Eckberg
European
realism;
were symbols of a new wave of intellectualism
which brought to light both the hope of a generation of idealists and the decadence of
“la
dolce vita.”
Charles Weiland, 1975
POLLY UNDERGROUND, 1976
39 3/4 X 32 IN. OIL ON CANVAS 133917