Harold Nosti Expressionistic and dimensional ceramic sculpture depicting a stylized female torso with matte and gloss glazes, inscribed signature in the clay and the whole backed and framed in wood. Framed: 22.5"h x 22.375"w x 3.5"d. Harold Nosti (d. 2004, America) is a multi-disciplinary artist in the fields of ceramics and painting. He was a graduate and professor at the University of Tampa and several artists of renown have benefited from his tutelage. While teaching, Nosti and Joseph Testa-Secca, at the time, both teachers at the University of Tampa were instrumental in the conception and formation of the La Monte Gallery. His work can be found on permanent exhibit at the Tampa International Airport (Landside Terminal, Level 3) and in the permanent collections of the Polk County Museum of Fine Arts, Tampa Museum of Art, Patrick Lanen Collection, Louisiana State University, and William Harvard Collection. He exhibited at the Smithsonian, The Norton Gallery, Society of Four Arts and Provincetown National. Refs. 1.) St. Petersburg Times - May 11, 1971. 2.) Ceramics Monthly, June 1963, ?Harold Nosti ? Painter with Clay by Hal Riegger. 3.) Modern Art in Florida 1948 ? 1970, Exhibition catalog. 4.) http://app.tampaairport.com/about/guest_services/public_art/index.asp. 5.) http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/tbo/obituary.aspx?n=harold-a-nosti&pid=2386627#sthash.DoFEJt8z.dpuf PROVENANCE: From the living collection of a prominent NYU Med Graduate, Surgical Doctor of Medicine, now in Investments and Medical Private Practice; and his wife, an Architectural Interiors Professional with a focus on Universal Design. You are buying these pieces from their own original Estate collection, and they are the original owners of these pieces, initially purchased directly from their world-wide gallery travel and now offered on the market here for the first time ever. The couple and their family are life-time collectors of blue-chip Modern Art, and supporters of New Artists & Designers.