Conrad Marca-Relli (1913-2000) American, Watercolor on Paper. An abstract image of a door or window above a stone wall. Signed lower right. Untitled. 

Condition: Minor staining to matting bottom left. 

Overall Size: 25 x 18 in. 

Sight Size: 18 x 11 in. 

Born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1913 to Italian immigrant parents, Conrad Marca-Relli was a pioneering American artist and a key figure in the first generation of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism. After studying briefly at Cooper Union and working for the WPA Federal Art Project during the Great Depression, he helped found the influential “Artists’ Club” alongside peers like Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline. Marca-Relli achieved international acclaim in the 1950s by elevating collage to a monumental scale, layering cut canvas, metal, and vinyl to create dynamic, puzzle-like abstract compositions. Honored with a major retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1967, he spent his later years working between Europe and the United States before passing away in Parma, Italy, in 2000.

Minor staining to matting bottom left. 

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