Elfi Schuselka Figural Composition Mixed Media

Elfi Schuselka (Austrian, b. 1940), Abstract Figural Composition, Mixed Media on Paper, circa 1965, apparently unsigned, wood frame. Image: 7" H x 10.75; frame: 8.25" H x 11.75" D x 0.75" D. Provenance: From the Collection of the artist. Note: Schuselka studied photography, art history, and theater at the University of Vienna. She moved to New York in 1964. Her work has been exhibited internationally in the United States, Italy, France, and Japan, as well as at the Cracovia Biennial, Yugoslavia, Ibiza Biennial, Spain, and the Sao Paulo Biennial. Her work is part of the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, and the International Centre of Graphic Arts, Slovenia. Long a regular exhibitor at the famed 55 Mercer Gallery, Schuselka is well-known in New York art circles together with her husband, Domenick Capobianco (American, b. 1928). Keywords: Painting, Oil, Crayon, Lacquer, Paper, Texture, Figurative, Abstraction, Surrealism, Polychrome, Women Artists, German Expressionist, Abstract Expressionist, AbEx, Post-War Art