Harold Stevenson

Harold Stevenson represents a unique opportunity to discover the work of this artist, a prominent figure in post-war avant-garde culture, a close friend of Andy Warhol and renowned for his large-scale paintings of male nudes, such as the famous The New Adam (1962). His last Italian exhibition, Realisti Iperrealisti, at the La Medusa Gallery in Rome, dates to November 1973, where the artist exhibited two paintings titled Piece of Action alongside works by Botero, Hockney, Pistoletto, and eight other important artists of the twentieth century. On display in Venice until July 27, 2024 are works created between the late 1950s and the 1970s, including the famous nude paintings, the “toreros,” and glass sculptures.

With Harold Stevenson, Tommaso Calabro further deepens his research on Alexander Iolas, one of the most famous art dealers of the last century, who organized eleven solo exhibitions of the artist in America and Europe between 1972 and 1984: in New York in 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1982, and 1984, in Athens in 1973, and in Paris in 1973 and 1974.