James Del Grosso (Am. 1942-2013) Large Still Life With Peach And Grapes

James Del Grosso (1941–2013) was an acclaimed American contemporary realist painter celebrated for his monumental, hyper-detailed fruit still lifes. A graduate of Manhattan's prestigious Cooper Union, he spent his career on Long Island. Del Grosso magnified everyday objects to isolate their pure form, weight, and texture. His work has been exhibited globally at New York's OK Harris Gallery and London's Plus One Gallery, and is preserved in permanent collections including the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Grapes with Peach is a quintessential oil painting that perfectly encapsulates Del Grosso’s signature approach to contemporary realism. The composition centers on a single, monumental peach nestled alongside an elegant, sprawling vine of green and deep ruby-red grapes. A natural grape leaf twists across the top of the fruit, its delicate tendrils curling dynamically to add a sense of organic life to the staging. Illuminated by a soft, singular light source from the left, the textured skin of the peach and the translucent, taut surfaces of the individual grapes are rendered with remarkable three-dimensional volume. True to his signature style, the arrangement rests upon a dark, highly polished surface, casting a beautifully soft, mirroring reflection beneath the fruit. Set against a muted, atmospheric, warm-toned background, the painting eliminates all secondary distractions, allowing the rich colors, weight, and hyper-realistic form of the fruit to command the viewer's full attention.

The rectangular white label affixed to the central stretcher bar is from the famous OK Harris Works of Art gallery (formerly located at 383 West Broadway in SoHo, NYC). The wood is stamped with "TRI-MAR," a premium NYC fine art stretcher bar manufacturer, showing that the canvas was stretched using professional, museum-grade materials. The small green label at the bottom center indicates it was framed by Bark Frameworks in New York, universally regarded as one of the top museum-quality archival framers in the United States.

Written directly on the unprimed raw canvas in the lower right quadrant is "Del Grosso 93". This confirms the piece was personally signed and dated by James Del Grosso in 1993, validating its prime-era status.

Dimensions:
Frame: 54" W x 34" H x 2 1/4" D
Canvas: 52" x 32" H

Condition: good