Lot 144
  • 144

Conrad Marca-Relli

Estimate
70,000 - 90,000 GBP
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Description

  • Conrad Marca-Relli
  • The Intrigue
  • signed; signed and titled on the stretcher

  • oil on canvas collage on canvas
  • 133 by 140cm.; 53 3/8 by 55 1/8 in.
  • Executed in 1958.

Provenance

The Stable Gallery, New York
Kootz Gallery, New York
Galerie Neufville, Paris
Galleria dell'Ariete, Milano

Exhibited

Mexico City, I Biennial Inter-American Exhibition of Paintings and Graphic Arts, 1958

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the overall tonality is deeper, warmer and richer in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. A few of the canvas collage elements are lifting slightly. No restoration is apparent when examined under ultra-violet light.
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