Lot 562: Guy Danella (NY, 1928-2006), "Sunday Afternoon"

Guy Danella (NY, 1928-2006), "Sunday Afternoon"
oil on canvas, signed at lower right and dated 1957, signed en verso on stretcher and canvas, presented in a later frame.
SS 36 x 35.5 in.; DOA 39.5 x 39 in.


Danella began his early studies in Utica at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute. By the age of sixteen, in 1944, he had moved to NYC and enrolled at the Art Students League. While in NYC he befriended Alfred Steiglitz and John Marin. He later met and impressed Josef Albers, whose geometric abstractions and color studies greatly influenced Danella during the period this painting was completed. Danella went on to influence his own cadre of students, never setting the brush down himself.
Exhibited: "Two Modernists Revisited," Kouros Gallery, Jan. 6-29, 2011, New York, NY. A Wall Street Journal review of the show by Lance Esplund describes "Sunday Afternoon" as an "ambitious, tessellating 'magic square' painting." (WSJ, NY Culture section, January 8, 2011) From the estate of the artist