Julio González

Galerie de France, Paris
Acquired directly from the above in 1984

Executed on white wove paper, not laid down, attached to the mount on the reverse of all four corners. This work is in very good original condition. Colours: Overall fairly accurate in the printed catalogue illustration, although the paper has a slightly lighter tonality in the original.
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'A painter or sculptor can give a form to something which has no concrete form: such as light, color, an idea. These forms will of course be imagined in reference to the human image. Difficult problems to be solved posed by these reinvented planes creating a new architecture' (Julio González, quoted in Margit Rowell, 'Julio González: Technique, Syntax, Context', in Julio González, A Retrospective (exhibition catalogue), The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1983, p. 29).