Two Abstract Sculptures

painted steel

Green: 20.5 x 15 x 4 Black: 20 x 16.5 x 4

20 × 16.5 × 4 in (50.8 × 41.9 × 10.2 cm) (largest piece)

Auction Estimate:$1,500 - $2,000

Sale date:June 14 - 28, 2022

Price Realized

$1,200

(including Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Camilla and Earl McGrath Stair Galleries, Camilla and Earl McGrath Collection June 2017, Lot 93 Acquired from the above auction by the current Private Collection, Toronto

Vincenzo Amato was born in Palermo, Italy in 1966; he is primarily known as an actor appearing in numerous films and tv shows. Early in his artistic career he had a couple of exhibitions at gallery Il Gabbiano in Rome. In the early 1990s he arrived in New York for a wedding and never left, continuing to pursue a career as an actor and sculptor, exhibiting his work at the Earl MacGrath Gallery.