Colorful abstract painting by Massachusetts artist Achillo "Achi" Sullo (American, 1922–2013), acquired from the artist's estate. Sullo worked in flat, organic forms bounded by heavy contours, built from high-key color — a vocabulary he returned to for decades.

A first-generation Italian-American born in Medford, Massachusetts in 1922, Sullo served four years in the Army Engineering Corps and survived D-Day. His artistic career began painting camouflage patterns onto Army vehicles, alongside Ellsworth Kelly, who served in the same camouflage battalion. The GI Bill took him to the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts for four years plus a fifth year studying in Italy and France, graduating in 1949 — the same year as classmate Cy Twombly.His only museum exhibition was a 1958 one-man show at the deCordova Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts, titled "Roxbury Pastorals." Vallarino Fine ArtVallarino Fine Art

After a 1961 show at Dunbarton Galleries in Boston, he stepped back from the commercial art world and made his living elsewhere, while continuing to paint prolifically until his death in 2013. The result is a body of work that stayed almost entirely private — which is why these paintings are only now reaching the market.

Unsigned, as most of his canvases are, with the artist's estate marking to the verso.

Dimensions: 36"H x 28"W