Trois Poeme D'Amour
Catalogue
- Year
- 1989
- Dimensions
- Sheet, view: 55.2 × 70.5 cm (21 3/4 × 27 13/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Nicholas Africano
Artist
Printmaking
Nicholas Africano is an American painter known for intimate figurative works and narrative compositions that emerged from postwar abstraction's dissolution into figuration. Working primarily in oil and acrylic, his paintings often depict solitary or paired figures in domestic and psychological spaces, employing a restrained palette and careful attention to light and shadow. His practice bridges the gap between gestural abstraction and representational storytelling, creating work that privileges psychological presence over formal spectacle.
Full artist profile →More
More by Nicholas Africano
Salvador
1992 · Color lithograph on white wove paper
I'm Cold Billy Can't Stop Shaking, from Lilacs and Smoke
1990 · Color lithograph on white Japanese wove paper
He Laughed, from Lilacs and Smoke
1990 · Color lithograph on white Japanese wove paper
Reading Wessex Heights August 1987 (Well, time Cures Hearts of Tenderness...), from Lilacs and Smoke
1990 · Color lithograph on white Japanese wove paper
May Before the Storm Still Human, from Lilacs and Smoke
1990 · Color lithograph on white Japanese wove paper
Listening to a Seashell Learning Patience, from Lilacs and Smoke
1990 · Color lithograph on white Japanese wove paper
Record
Verified by WattsOS- Artist
- Nicholas Africano
- Year
- 1989
- Dimensions
- Sheet, view: 55.2 × 70.5 cm (21 3/4 × 27 13/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1989-089440
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified