For sale is a wonderful original signed architectural abstract painting by the well known Paris France artist Anita De Caro (1909 - 1998)

This painting features and abstract view of architectural buildings. De Caro was influenced by the tall buildings in NYC on a visit and began including these abstracted views into her works.

This is certainly one of her better smaller abstract works.

Medium: Watercolor, ink

Date: Circa 1950’s (undated)

Signed: By the artist lower right

Unframed: Matted

Title: inscribed in pencil bottom left “Noel” (see picture)

Condition: Good. The paper with normal toning for age taped to backing board on top margin (see picture).

Measurements

Matting - 14” x 14”

Sight - 6 3/4” x 7 3/4”

Sheet - 7 3/8” x 8 1/8 (approximately)

Anita de Caro was born in New York, in a family of Neapolitan origin. She quickly showed a taste for drawing, and from a young age visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She enrolled at the Art Student's League, a school run by Hans Hofmann and Max Weber. She studied painting with Hans Hofmann who would say of her work: "This girl has an inner vision". She discovered French art, Cézanne and Matisse: She said, "Matisse became for me a master who enlightened me".

After the death of her mother in 1932, Anita de Caro accompanied a friend, Norina Matchabelli, for a trip to Europe. In Zurich, she attended Otto Haas Haye's class at a modernist academy run by Paul Klee.

In 1936, she moved to Paris and came to work at Atelier 17 created by Stanley Hayter. She made her first etchings and illustrated a short story by Henry Miller called Black Spring

She met the engraver Roger Vieillard at a party organized at Atelier 17, and married him in 1939.

Anita de Caro stayed in Paris during the war years, while Roger Vieillard was mobilized. Her engravings, gouaches and inks showed a surrealist inspiration, she also created bas-reliefs in precious metals. From the early 1940s, the couple was in contact with the artists and poets associated with the Second School of Paris such as Bazaine, Manessier, Jean Tardieu, Andre Frenaud. In this trend, we can also mention Jean Le Moal, Roger Bissière, and Vieira da Silva, who also attended Atelier 17.

In 1941, the gallery "L'Esquisse" organized the first personal exhibition of Anita de Caro. Her work moved towards abstraction, playing on the modulations of color and light. "The real is transmuted in a poetic field of legendary interior scenes of line, her paintings are built by juxtaposition of colored keys in transparency or superimposed".

From 1947 to 1957, the exhibitions followed each other, in 1948 in New York, at Argent galleries, and in 1950 at the Grace Borgenicht gallery. Since 1956, she had been making solo exhibitions in the Paris galleries of Jeanne Bucher, Claude Bernard and Maeght (1958). She participated in the exhibition of the 1956 Paris School at Galerie Charpentier. Her works were shown in Japan, Brussels and London.