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Painter, Illustrator, b. 1906 - d. 1956

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    • O. LOUIS GUGLIELMI (1906 - 1956, EGYPTIAN/AMERICAN) Composition: Ave.sold
      Dec. 01, 2022

      O. LOUIS GUGLIELMI (1906 - 1956, EGYPTIAN/AMERICAN) Composition: Ave.

      Est: $4,000 - $6,000

      O. LOUIS GUGLIELMI (1906 - 1956, EGYPTIAN/AMERICAN) Composition: Ave. Oil on canvas, 1953. Inscribed as titled on overlap. 915x515 mm; 36x20 1/4 inches. Provenance: Washburn Gallery, NY; Sid Deutsch Gallery, NY; Private collection, VA.

      Swann Auction Galleries
    • O. Louis Guglielmi (American, 1906-1956) Oil On Canvas, C. 1947, Antiphony, H 30'' W 24''sold
      Nov. 18, 2022

      O. Louis Guglielmi (American, 1906-1956) Oil On Canvas, C. 1947, Antiphony, H 30'' W 24''

      Est: $6,000 - $8,000

      Signed lower right. Provenance: The Downtown Gallery, New York, NY (paper label affixed verso); Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York, NY (paper label affixed verso).

      DuMouchelles
    • O. Louis Guglielmi, Egyptian (1906-1956), Interior and Facade No. 1, 1954, oil on canvas, 40"H x 18"W (sight), 46 3/4"H x 24 3/4"W (frame)sold
      Feb. 19, 2022

      O. Louis Guglielmi, Egyptian (1906-1956), Interior and Facade No. 1, 1954, oil on canvas, 40"H x 18"W (sight), 46 3/4"H x 24 3/4"W (frame)

      Est: $7,000 - $9,000

      O. Louis Guglielmi Egyptian, (1906-1956) Interior and Facade No. 1, 1954 oil on canvas signed upper left. Provenance: From a private collector, Indianapolis. Andrew Crispo Gallery, NY, Washburn Gallery, NY labels verso. From the Archives of AskArt: Painter O. Louis Guglielmi moved stylistically from a symbolic Social Realism, Precisionism, and Surrealism, ultimately to abstraction, but his subject matter, when it existed, dealt with society's underdogs. He had experienced slum living as a youth, moving from place to place because of his violinist father's need to find employment. Though Guglielmi was born in 1906 in Cairo, Egypt, his Italian parents moved the family to Italy. In 1914, they were living in New York City in Harlem's Italian slum. Guglielmi was involved in the political and artistic protests of the trial, conviction as anarchist bombers, and execution of Sacco and Vanzetti in 1927. He painted a picture that excoriated the tenement living conditions of many Americans, "One Third of a Nation." It was such a strong statement that the State Department cancelled an international tour of American modern art. He was a teenage art student at the National Academy of Design in New York City and the Beaux Arts Institute from 1920 to 1925. During this time, he worked as a commercial artist, painted murals and was awarded a Tiffany Foundation fellowship. Guglielmi painted Precisionist stylized architectural motifs through 1933. He then moved toward a moody Magic Realism and Surrealism under the influence of Italian painter Giorgio de Chirico. During the Depression years of 1934 to 1939, Guglielmi found employment with the Federal government's artist relief programs, the WPA and Public Works Administration. His social and political awareness impelled him, in 1938, to warn that the Spanish Civil War might lead to greater destruction. His painting, "Mental Geography," depicted the Brooklyn Bridge destroyed, prophetically symbolizing, in its way, United States involvement and casualties in the coming war. In 1945, after serving three years in the army in World War II, Guglielmi turned toward more formal, Stuart Davis-like abstractions. This is particularly interesting, considering that his experience in the War might have sent him in any of several artistic and philosophical directions. Guglielmi might have emerged from widespread wartime suffering with an enhanced concern for the plight of humanity he had already evidenced in his earlier work. But what he actually did, stylistically speaking, was avoid humanity and the world through his decision to paint abstractly, perhaps overwhelmed by his experiences, immersing himself solely in the safer, less troubling realm of aesthetic manipulation. At the end, Guglielmi was painting completely abstract works. He was a prize-winning artist who exhibited his paintings in many major exhibitions. Before his death in 1956 at age fifty, Louis Guglielmi taught at Louisiana State University and the New School for Social Research in New York City. His work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, as well as the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. and the Newark Museum in New Jersey. Source: Matthew Baigell, "Dictionary of American Art" Michael David Zellman, "300 Years of American Art"

      Ripley Auctions
    • O. Louis Guglielmi (1906-1956) - St. George's Church, Stuyvesant Squaresold
      Oct. 28, 2020

      O. Louis Guglielmi (1906-1956) - St. George's Church, Stuyvesant Square

      Est: $70,000 - $100,000

      O. Louis Guglielmi (1906-1956) St. George's Church, Stuyvesant Square oil on canvas 29 ¾ x 23 ¾ in. (75.6 x 60.3 cm.)

      Christie's
    • O. Louis Guglielmi Social Surrealist O/C Paintingsold
      May. 21, 2020

      O. Louis Guglielmi Social Surrealist O/C Painting

      Est: $800 - $1,200

      United States, Egypt,1906-1956 Impressionist painting with a touch of social surrealism of three figures laying on the ground with one sitting up and keeping watch shrouded in darkness. Guglielmi moved to the Italian slums of New York with his Italian parents and was an active participant during the protests surrounding the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti in 1927. Guglielmi also studied at the National Academy of Design in New York City and the Beaux Arts Institute, in which his style began to shift from social surrealism to precisionism then total abstraction.

      Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers
    • O. Louis Guglielmi Social Surrealist O/C Paintingsold
      Mar. 14, 2020

      O. Louis Guglielmi Social Surrealist O/C Painting

      Est: $800 - $1,200

      United States, Egypt,1906-1956 Impressionist painting with a touch of social surrealism of three figures laying on the ground with one sitting up and keeping watch shrouded in darkness. Guglielmi moved to the Italian slums of New York with his Italian parents and was an active participant during the protests surrounding the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti in 1927. Guglielmi also studied at the National Academy of Design in New York City and the Beaux Arts Institute, in which his style began to shift from social surrealism to precisionism then total abstraction.

      Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers
    • O. Louis Guglielmi (1906-1956) Land of Canaan oil on canvas 30 x 36 in. (76.2 x 91.4 cm.)sold
      May. 22, 2019

      O. Louis Guglielmi (1906-1956) Land of Canaan oil on canvas 30 x 36 in. (76.2 x 91.4 cm.)

      Est: $120,000 - $180,000

      O. Louis Guglielmi (1906-1956) Land of Canaan signed 'Guglielmi' (lower left) oil on canvas 30 x 36 in. (76.2 x 91.4 cm.) Painted in 1934.

      Christie's
    • ƒO. LOUIS GUGLIELMI (1906-1956) SANS TITRE, 1949 Tempera sur bois Signé et daté 49 en bas à droite Tempera on wood; signed a...sold
      Nov. 27, 2018

      ƒO. LOUIS GUGLIELMI (1906-1956) SANS TITRE, 1949 Tempera sur bois Signé et daté 49 en bas à droite Tempera on wood; signed a...

      Est: €7,000 - €10,000

      ƒO. LOUIS GUGLIELMI (1906-1956) SANS TITRE, 1949 Tempera sur bois Signé et daté 49 en bas à droite Tempera on wood; signed and dated 49 lower right 24 X 19 CM - 9 1/2 X 7 1/2 IN. €7,000-10,000 Provenance Collection privée, New York (acquis directement auprès de l’artiste)

      Tajan
    • OSVALDO LOUIS GUGLIELMI | Still Life with Masksold
      Oct. 05, 2018

      OSVALDO LOUIS GUGLIELMI | Still Life with Mask

      Est: $5,000 - $7,000

      signed 'Guglielmi' and dated '31 ' (upper left); oil on canvas

      Sotheby's
    • GUGLIELMI, O. Louis. Oil on Canvas. "Circus Clown"sold
      Oct. 08, 2017

      GUGLIELMI, O. Louis. Oil on Canvas. "Circus Clown"

      Est: $1,000 - $1,500

      1942. Signed and dated lower right. Inscribed 'Property of Ann Guglielmi / Aug. 1942' on stretcher verso. Osvaldo Louis Guglielmi (American, b. Egypt, 1906-1956). From a Guilford, NY home.

      Clarke Auction Gallery
    • OSVALDO LOUIS GUGLIELMI, 1906 - 1956 | Still Life with Masksold
      May. 24, 2017

      OSVALDO LOUIS GUGLIELMI, 1906 - 1956 | Still Life with Mask

      Est: $10,000 - $15,000

      signed 'Guglielmi' and dated '31' (upper left); oil on canvas

      Sotheby's
    • O. LOUIS GUGLIELMI (1906-1956): CIRCUS CLOWNsold
      Jun. 12, 2016

      O. LOUIS GUGLIELMI (1906-1956): CIRCUS CLOWN

      Est: $3,000 - $5,000

      O. LOUIS GUGLIELMI (1906-1956): CIRCUS CLOWN Oil on canvas, 1942, signed 'Guglielmi' and dated lower right. 18 1/2 x 12 in., 24 x 18 in. (frame). Provenance: ex-collection Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, CT.

      Stair
    • O. Louis Guglielmi (1906-1956) Serenadesold
      Nov. 19, 2015

      O. Louis Guglielmi (1906-1956) Serenade

      Est: -

      O. Louis Guglielmi (1906-1956) Serenade

      Christie's
    • O. Louis Guglielmi (1906-1956) Skyscapesold
      Nov. 19, 2015

      O. Louis Guglielmi (1906-1956) Skyscape

      Est: -

      O. Louis Guglielmi (1906-1956) Skyscape

      Christie's
    • O. LOUIS GUGLIELMI (1906-1956). LITHOGRAPH. 15 X 16 INCHES.sold
      Nov. 06, 2015

      O. LOUIS GUGLIELMI (1906-1956). LITHOGRAPH. 15 X 16 INCHES.

      Est: $50 - $100

      O. LOUIS GUGLIELMI (1906-1956). LITHOGRAPH. 15 X 16 INCHES.

      Dennis Auction Service
    • O. Louis Guglielmi, (American/Egyptian, 1906-1956), Mountain in New Hampshire, 1932, oil on paper mounted on canvas, 12" x 16"sold
      Dec. 06, 2014

      O. Louis Guglielmi, (American/Egyptian, 1906-1956), Mountain in New Hampshire, 1932, oil on paper mounted on canvas, 12" x 16"

      Est: $1,000 - $2,000

      O. Louis Guglielmi (American/Egyptian, 1906-1956) Mountain in New Hampshire, 1932 oil on paper mounted on canvas signed and dated lower right 12" x 16" Provenance: Private Collection, Maine Acquired from the above by the present owner

      Toomey & Co. Auctioneers
    • Osvaldo Louis Guglielmi American, 1906-1956 Circus in Yellow, 1955sold
      Nov. 11, 2014

      Osvaldo Louis Guglielmi American, 1906-1956 Circus in Yellow, 1955

      Est: $10,000 - $15,000

      Osvaldo Louis Guglielmi American, 1906-1956 Circus in Yellow, 1955 Signed Guglielmi and dated 55 (lr), inscribed as titled on the stretcher Oil on canvas 33 x 44 inches (83.82 x 111.76 cm) Provenance: American Folk Art Gallery, New York Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York C 

      Doyle New York
    • Osvaldo Louis Guglielmi American, 1906-1956 Aerial Descent, 1953sold
      Nov. 11, 2014

      Osvaldo Louis Guglielmi American, 1906-1956 Aerial Descent, 1953

      Est: $10,000 - $15,000

      Osvaldo Louis Guglielmi American, 1906-1956 Aerial Descent, 1953 Signed Guglielmi and dated 53 (lr), inscribed as titled on the overlap Oil on canvas 40 x 36 inches (101.6 x 91.44 cm) Provenance: Nordness Gallery, New York C 

      Doyle New York
    • Osvaldo Louis Guglielmi American, 1906-1956 Circus in White, 1954sold
      Nov. 11, 2014

      Osvaldo Louis Guglielmi American, 1906-1956 Circus in White, 1954

      Est: $15,000 - $25,000

      Osvaldo Louis Guglielmi American, 1906-1956 Circus in White, 1954 Signed Guglielmi and dated 54 (ll) Oil on canvas 23 3/4 x 39 3/4 inches (60.32 x 100.96 cm) Provenance: Nordness Gallery, New York Exhibited: Mary Washington Annual Exhibition of Modern Art, Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, VA C 

      Doyle New York
    • O. Louis Guglielmi, (American, 1906-1956), Night Windows, 1948sold
      Sep. 25, 2013

      O. Louis Guglielmi, (American, 1906-1956), Night Windows, 1948

      Est: $8,000 - $12,000

      O. Louis Guglielmi (American, 1906-1956) Night Windows, 1948 oil on canvas signed Guglielmi and dated (lower right) 32 x 19 inches.

      Hindman
    • Louis O. Guglielmi 1906 - 1956 American oil on canvas Untitled #6sold
      Oct. 27, 2011

      Louis O. Guglielmi 1906 - 1956 American oil on canvas Untitled #6

      Est: CAD8,000 - CAD10,000

      Louis O. Guglielmi 1906 - 1956 American oil on canvas Untitled #6 48 x 40 inches 121.9 x 101.6 centimeters on verso titled Provenance:Private Collection, Toronto

      Heffel
    • Louis O. Guglielmi 1906 - 1956 American oil on canvas Obsessive Themesold
      Oct. 27, 2011

      Louis O. Guglielmi 1906 - 1956 American oil on canvas Obsessive Theme

      Est: CAD10,000 - CAD15,000

      Louis O. Guglielmi 1906 - 1956 American oil on canvas Obsessive Theme 44 x 33 inches 111.7 x 83.8 centimeters signed and dated 1948 and on verso titled on the stretcher Provenance:Nordness Gallery, New York Private Collection, Toronto

      Heffel
    • O. Louis Guglielmi, (American, 1906-1956), City Windowssold
      May. 15, 2011

      O. Louis Guglielmi, (American, 1906-1956), City Windows

      Est: $7,000 - $9,000

      O. Louis Guglielmi (American, 1906-1956) City Windows oil on canvasboard signed Guglielmi (lower right) 14 7/8 x 10 7/8 inches.

      Hindman
    • O. Louis Guglielmi American, 1906-1956 Mountain in New Hampshire, 1932sold
      Nov. 10, 2010

      O. Louis Guglielmi American, 1906-1956 Mountain in New Hampshire, 1932

      Est: $3,000 - $5,000

      O. Louis Guglielmi American, 1906-1956 Mountain in New Hampshire, 1932 Signed Guglielmi and dated 32 (lr) Oil on paper laid to canvas 12 1/8 x 16 1/8 inches Provenance: Private collection, Maine

      Doyle New York
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