Art + Design 
18 July 2019
Dalia Ramanauskas, More Bottle Caps - Image 1 of 1
Art + Design 
Dalia Ramanauskas, More Bottle Caps - Image 1 of 1
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Dalia Ramanauskas b.1936

More Bottle Caps

1970
ink on paper 13¾ h × 18 w in (35 × 46 cm)
estimate: $1,000–1,500
result: $1,250
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Signed, titled, dated and inscribed to verso 'Dalia Orena A. Ramanauskas More Bottlecaps For Allan Dec. 1970 Dalia'.
provenance: Acquired directly from the artist | Allan Stone Gallery, New York
exhibited: Louise Ferrari Gallery, Houston, 1971 | Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, 1972-73 | Dalia Ramanauskas: Ink Drawings, 21 February - 30 March 2019, Allan Stone Projects, New York

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The Visionary Eye of Allan Stone

Allan Stone; Allan Stone Gallery, New York, c. 1975. Images courtesy of the Allan Stone Collection


Founded in 1960 by art dealer Allan Stone (1932–2006), the New York gallery known today as Allan Stone Projects has been admired for over half a century. Celebrated for its eclectic approach and early advocacy of pivotal artists of the 20th century, Allan Stone Gallery was a leading authority on Abstract Expressionism, the New York dealer for Wayne Thiebaud for over forty years, and showed the works of Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Arshile Gorky, Joseph Cornell, John Graham and John Chamberlain. Stone also promoted the work of a younger generation of artists that were in conversation with other artists in his collection, working in the mediums of assemblage, collage and new modes of abstraction. In addition to modern masterworks and contemporary art, Allan Stone also collected and exhibited international folk art, Americana and important decorative arts and industrial design.

Dalia Ramanauskas b. 1936

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Dalia Ramanauskas was born in 1936 in Kaunas, Lithuania. She came to the United States in 1949, where she later graduated from Southern Connecticut College in 1958. She has exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, PA; the Albright Knox Museum, NY; the New Britain Museum of American Art, CT; the Institute of Contemporary Art of the University of Pennsylvania; the Norfolk Museum of Art, CT and the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, MA; among others. Ramanauskas is represented in several permanent collections such as the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., the Minnesota Museum of Art, Chase Manhattan Bank, NY, the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, the Fine Arts Museums, CA, and the Yale University Art Gallery, CT.

A master of her medium, Dalia Ramanauskas brings heightened focus to the memorabilia of daily life through her meticulous drawings of paper cups, playing cards and other everyday curiosities. Combining the sensibility of the old masters with the subtle unrealities of Magical Realism, Ramanauskas’ still lifes are imbued with a formal tension, poetic atmosphere and whimsical sense of humor.

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