John Saccaro
Untitled
Size: 33" X 31"
Signed: Unsigned
Date: 1959
Condition: Good (condition report available).
Provenance: Full provenance available

This is a powerful, and prime example of John Saccaro's "action paintings" of the 1950's and one of his last paintings of that era.

John Saccaro is an important abstract expressionist painter of the 1950's best known for his powerful "action painting". He was one of the leading artists of the San Francisco Bay Area abstract expressionist movement in the 1950's. 

In recent years the bay are painters are becoming acknowledged by the art community, as equal to the "New York School" (which included Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Franz Kline, Willem DeKooning, Robert Motherwell, etc.) What this means in economic terms is the "valuation gap" is closing. Prices of San Francisco Bay Area abstract expressionist paintings are quickly catching up to their New York peer group.  The price gap is about 10X. For example a top Richard Diebenkorn painting sells for $5,000,000 while a decent Jackson Pollock or Mark Rothko painting will be about $50 million.

It is very rare to find good John Saccaro's paintings on the market. They are becoming increasingly rare. Good paintings are selling for $10-35K at auction, and up to $350,000 for his best work, at dealers. The prices for good Saccaro paintings has increased by 800%-1000% since the mid 1990's. Paintings that sold for $1,000 a few years ago are selling for $10,000+ today.  (Please don't be misled by some crappy Saccaro's, in bad condition you occasionally see selling at auction for $1,000).

I (and experts who are way smarter than me) believe prices for high quality John Saccaro paintings are still deeply undervalued compared to the NY painters, and will increase dramatically in price over next 10-15 years. Find a good Saccaro hang it up on your wall, and watch your investment grow another 500%-1000% over the next decade.  This merely represents my personal highly-biased opinion and is not to be construed as investment advice!! Just do the research and decide for yourself.   

John Saccaro paintings are in major private collections worldwide, and museums including:
The San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art; The Pasadena Art Museum; The M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San
Francisco; Elvehjem Museum, The Oakland Museum , University of Wisconsin at Madison; Palm Springs
Desert Museum; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna
Beach; Triton Museum, Santa Clara.

Book references: Susan Landauer, The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism; Thomas Albright, Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980; Gibbons J. Cooney, John Saccaro, Catalog #5 of a yearlong Series, the Carlson Gallery, 1990; Edan Hughes, Artists in California 1786-1940; Mary Fuller McChesney, A Period of Exploration, San Francisco 1945-1950; Frederick S. Wight, The Artist's Environment: West Coast; Henry Hopkins, Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, American Abstract Expressionists of the 1950's, an illustrated survey.

I have other John Saccaro paintings of the desirable, prime 1950's period available  for purchase. Please inquire.

Do you have a Saccaro painting you want to sell? I pay TOP DOLLAR for good John Saccaro paintings anywhere.