Lot 171
  • 171

Fernando de Szyszlo (b. 1925)

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Fernando de Szyszlo
  • Alpas Miqchaqun II (La Tierra Se Niega)
  • signed lower right; also titled on the reverse
  • acrylic on canvas
  • 51 1/4 by 63 3/4 in.
  • 130.1 by 162 cm
  • Painted in 1963.

Provenance

The Ganitsky Guberek  Collection, Bogotá
Thence by descent to the previous owners
Private Collection, Bogotá

Exhibited

Bogotá, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Retrospectiva, Fernando de Szyzslo, January-Feberuary 1973, no. 4
Bogotá, Museo del Banco de la República de Colombia, Colección Ganitsky Guberek: Tres décadas de Arte Moderno, 1960-1990, December 10, 2008-April 27, 2009, p. 16, illustrated in color

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. The canvas is unlined and well-stretched. The paint layer is stable. Under ultraviolet inspection, fluorescing occurs along the extreme edges of the canvas.
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