Domenick Capobianco (American, b. 1928), "Surprize III", Oil on Canvas, depicting a clown head facing a skull, in the manner of Jean-Michel Basquiat (American, 1960-1988), apparently unsigned, unframed. 34" H x 36" W. Provenance: Property from the estate of the artist. Note: Domenick Capobianco (American, b. 1928) artist, is a graduate of Washington University at St. Louis, a Rutgers Fellow (1979), and a Guggeheim Fellow (1984/85). Capobianco taught for many years on the faculty at Rutgers University, N.J. His work are in the collections of the Academie des Beaux-Arts, Ljubjana, Slovenia; the Sammlung Albertina, Vienna, Austria; L?Instituto per la Culturea e L?Arte, Catania, Italy; The Kharkiv Museum, Kharkiv, Ukraine; Le Musee d?Art Contemporain, Skopje, Macedonia; The M.V. Nesterov Museum, Ufa, Russia; The Newark Public Library, Newark, N.J.; The Robert Blackburn Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; and the Weatherspoon Museum, Greensboro, N.C., among many others in Europe, Asia, and the U.S. Long a regular exhibitor at the famed 55 Mercer Gallery, Capobianco is well-known in New York art circles together with his wife, the artist Elfi Schuselka (Austrian, b. 1940). Keywords: Painting, Contemporary Art, Pop Art, Abstract, Figurative, Second New York School

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