Lot 163
Albert Alcalay(American, 1917-2008)Aerial View
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Albert Alcalay (American, 1917-2008)
Aerial View
signed and dated 'ALCALAY 75' (lower right); titled, dated, and signed (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
91.8 x 91.8 cm (36 1/8 x 36 1/8 in).
framed 95.3 x 95.3 x 3.8 cm (37 1/2 x 37 1/2 x 1 1/2 in).
signed and dated 'ALCALAY 75' (lower right); titled, dated, and signed (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
91.8 x 91.8 cm (36 1/8 x 36 1/8 in).
framed 95.3 x 95.3 x 3.8 cm (37 1/2 x 37 1/2 x 1 1/2 in).
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Provenance
A private Massachusetts collection (acquired directly from the artist).
N.B.
Albert Alcalay was born in Paris to Jewish Serbian parents and grew up in both Paris and Belgrade, where he studied art and established his own small studio in the late 1930s. In 1941 the Nazi invasion forced Alcalay and his family to flee, and Alcalay joined the Yugoslavian army. Upon Yugoslavia's surrender, he was imprisoned in the Ferramonti internment camp near Calabria, Italy, during which time he began studying painting with fellow inmate Michel Fingesten. After the war, he settled in Rome for a few years before moving to the United States in 1951. He was a Guggenheim Fellow and taught at Harvard University from 1960 to 1982, where he was one of the founders of Harvard's Department of Visual and Environmental Studies.