Margherita Manzelli - Contemporary Art Part I New York Thursday, May 13, 2010 | Phillips

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  • Provenance


    CRG Gallery, New York

  • Catalogue Essay


    Margherita Manzelli uses the techniques of painterly realism to create fictional worlds. Her paintings look like female portraits but they are more like abstract paintings of state of mind. The figures function as portals to enter a mental space, a synaesthetic fusion of forms, sounds, and rhythms. Her interest in depicting the fluid space of dreams and irrational thought connects her with Italian Symbolism and the early work of Futurists like Umberto Boccioni and Luigi Russolo. Her paintings appear to be realist, but her representational skill is really a platform to transport the viewer into a state of mind that transcends earthbound reality.
    J. Deitch, Form Follows Fiction, Torino, 2001

146

Miss Missy

1997

Oil on canvas.

19 3/4 x 17 1/2 in. (50.2 x 44.5 cm).
Signed, titled and dated “Margherita Manzelli ‘Miss Missy’ 1997” on the reverse.

Estimate
$70,000 - 90,000 

Sold for $80,500

Contemporary Art Part I

13 May 2010
New York