Charles Arnoldi valuation

Charles Arnoldi was born in Dayton, Ohio, in 1946 and moved to California at eighteen. After two years at Ventura Junior College he studied at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, where he received a Young Talent Award from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. His first mature works were built from tree branches and twigs used as the lines of a painting, and from 1977 some of these stick pieces were cast in bronze. In the late 1980s he glued plywood sheets together, cut into them with a chainsaw and painted them, and in the 1990s he returned to painting on canvas, at first in black and white with looping, organic shapes and then in bright colour and hard-edged geometry. As a printmaker he has used branches, plywood, Plexiglas and copper plates as matrices, and in 2013 he made lithographs at Tamarind Institute. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1977, and his work is in the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He lives and works in Los Angeles.

Arnoldi's work includes unique paintings on canvas, wall reliefs and constructions in wood and sticks, bronzes, works on paper, and prints, among them lithographs and monotypes. For a print, note the edition number, the publisher or workshop, the paper and the signature. Stick and plywood pieces are fragile, so check for loose, broken or missing elements and any repainting. A gallery invoice and the date of the work should go with any piece.