Frame Height: 36" - Frame Width: 32"
Signature: Signed: Scarpitta 89
Personal collection of the artist
About Salvatore Scarpitta
A major figure in the avant-garde art worlds of 1950s Rome and New York, Salvatore Scarpitta produced a diverse body of work that includes three-dimensional wrapped or “bandaged” canvases and functioning racing cars that were used on a track in Pennsylvania. Scarpitta’s cars delved into recurring themes in his work: life, death, rebirth, and movement. He counted Norman Bluhm, Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, Frederick Kiesler, and David Smith among his cohort. His influence can be seen in the work of Jeff Koons, Richard Prince, Matthew Barney, Martin Puryear, and Nancy Rubins.
American, 1919-2007
Group Shows
2014
Montrasio Arte / Km0,
Innsbruck, Salvatore Scarpitta • Joseph Beuys. Icon for a transit
Fair History on Artsy
2016
Montrasio Arte / Km0 at Art Cologne 2016
2016
Montrasio Arte / Km0 at The Armory Show 2016
2015
Studio Guenzani at MiArt 2015
2015
Montrasio Arte / Km0 at MiArt 2015