ARMANDO MORALES | Despedida VI

Private Collection, Costa Rica (acquired directly from the artist)
Private Collection, Costa Rica (by descent from the above) 
Acquired from the above 

This work is in good condition overall. The canvas is unlined. The colors are vibrant, and the media layer is stable overall. Minor frame abrasion is present along each of the extreme edges of the canvas, approximately 1/4 inch from the edge. An isolated three-inch vertical area of media loss is present at the extreme center right edge of the canvas. A few additional isolated spots of media loss are scattered along the extreme edges of the canvas. Under ultraviolet light examination, fluorescence occurs due to the media selected by the artist.
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“When Armando Morales traveled to Europe at the end of 1964, he was becoming more open to new experiences with color, leaving behind compositions based on black and white... Upon his return to Nicaragua in 1965, transformations became evident in his painting which now incorporated human figures, in contrast to the vast earlier production of abstract paintings. He ceased representing pure objects to concentrate on a theme that years later would be representative of his art: the human figure... This was a new and significant dimension in the work of Morales, not only because he incorporated figures, but also because he used the human body as the center of his creations, regardless of whether he depicted it as such or formed a symbiosis of women-objects. Morales thus expresses an erotic and sensual essence with the human body as the center of nature, a source of pleasure in the fantastic pictorial imagination.” 

Lily Kassner, Morales, Italy 1995, p. 65