Oil on canvas with newspaper, signed and dated at lower left "Danella '59," inscribed with title on the verso, framed.

DOA 30.5 x 22.5 in.

From the Estate of the Artist

This work was painted during the Cold War at the time of the Dalai Lama's harrowing flight from Tibet to India. It features Danella's use of fable-like animal figures in a thoroughly modern context.

Danella began his early studies in Utica at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute. By the age of sixteen, in 1944, he had moved to NYC and enrolled at the Art Students League. While in NYC he befriended Alfred Stieglitz and John Marin. He later met and impressed Josef Albers, whose geometric abstractions and color studies greatly influenced Danella during the period this painting was completed. Danella went on to influence his own cadre of students, never setting the brush down himself.

$800 - 1,200