🔥 RARE Vintage New York Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting, Sol Zaretsky 70s

Description: This is a vibrant and RARE Early Vintage New York Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting on Masonite, by esteemed New York modernist Sol Zaretsky (b. 1929.) This work depicts a gorgeous impressionistic rendering of Caumsett Park in Long Island, New York. An old blue automobile is visible in the left of the image, and vividly rendered trees in various shades of greens and blues are seen throughout. Signed: "Zaretsky" in the lower right corner. This is a very early work by the artist, and approximately dates to the 1970's, around the time of the artist's first NYC exhibition in 1975. Approximately 16 1/4 x 19 1/4 inches (including frame.) Actual artwork is approximately 15 x 18 inches. Very good condition for age, with some dustiness to the painting, a few small scuffs, and mild edge wear to the original period wooden frame (please see photos.) Acquired from an old private collection in Los Angeles, California. Priced to sell. If you like what you see, I encourage you to make an Offer. Please check out my other listings for more wonderful and unique artworks! About the Artist:Sol Zaretsky Born 1929 in NYC, New York.Grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.An established painter who has exhibited in the tri-state (NY) metropolitan area with shows at the CSA Gallery, Pleiades Gallery, Piermont Flywheel Gallery and the Brooklyn Museum Biennial Print Show.Inspired by the French School of Painting - Cezanne through Seurat. Sol Zaretsky is a painter who continues to paint into his nineties. His artworks contain a lush colorist's sensibility and evoke a fluid dynamic quality of juxtaposing shapes and color to create a sense of movement as seen in his landscapes and abstractions. By using a saturated color palette, combined with gestural brushstrokes, he explores biomorphic shapes and abstract representations of nature. Sol experiments with different forms and lighting, sometimes subdued and diffuse sometimes vibrant, he skillfully and playfully balances his independent style.Sol ZaretskyEarly and Recent Work July 14-31, 2021Undiscovered master colorist and tireless investigator of paintings’ possibilities, Zaretsky at 92 is having his day in this first solo at Blue Mountain Gallery. It is his first solo show in NYC since 1975.Zaretsky’s paintings contain a lush colorist’s sensibility and evoke a fluid dynamic quality of juxtaposing shapes and color to create a sense of movement as seen in his landscapes and abstractions. By using a saturated color palette, combined with gestural brushstrokes, he explores biomorphic shapes and abstract representations of nature. Sol experiments with different forms and lighting, sometimes subdued and diffuse and sometimes vibrant, he skillfully and playfully balances his independent style.After growing up in a tenement on New York’s Lower East Side, Sol found the Henry Street Settlement where classes introduced him to art. He went on to the High School of Art and Design, followed by Cooper Union and finished his education at Yale where he studied with Joseph Albers among others. When returning to painting full time after his career as the Chairman of the Seward Park High School Art Department, he studied with Louis Finklestein and Stanley Lewis.He has shown work at Bowery and Kenkeleba galleries in New York and his work is in the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Museum.

Price: 1350 USD

Location: Orange, California

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