Xavier J. Barile Still Life Oil Painting

Item Details

Xavier J. Barile (Italian-American; 1891- 1981)
Untitled (still life with wine), early to mid 20th century
Oil painting on canvas
Signed to the lower left

Xavier Barile was born in Italy, and immigrated to New York in 1907. After learning English he studied at Evening Art Classes at Cooper Union Institute in New York and eventually enrolled in the Art Students League, New York City where he studied under John Sloan, Reginald Marsh and Victor Perard. He was part of the informal Ashcan School, a group that painted scenes from daily life in New York’s poorer neighborhoods. He exhibited across the United States, at venues including the Whitney Studio Club, The Kit Kat Club, The Cincinnati Museum, The New Mexico Museum and his work is held in The National Collection of Fine Arts (NCFA) Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Condition

- discoloration and accretion throughout surface of painting; lost tension in canvas with stretcher marks and billowing resulting; canvas has pulled free of some stretcher tacks, leaving holes in canvas margins; craquelure to paint with flaking paint loss notable to upper right quadrant; holes to canvas of <0.25" to upper left and lower left sides against stretcher marks.

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Item #

18DCC659-1015