Lot 136
  • 136

Miguel Berrocal

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
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Description

  • Miguel Berrocal
  • Via Appia
  • stamped with the artist's name and number /6
  • bronze
  • 47 1/4 by 60 5/8 by 15 3/4 in. 120 by 154 by 40 cm.
  • Executed in 1961, this work is number 2 from an edition of 6 plus one artist's proof.
bronze
120 by 154 by 40cm.
Executed in 1961, this work is from an editon of six.

Provenance

Albert Loeb Gallery, New York
São Schlumberger (acquired from the above in May 1969)
By descent to the present owner from the above

Exhibited

New York, Albert Loeb Gallery, Three Sculptors: Berrocal - Ipousteguy - Muller, October - November 1962 (another example exhibited)
Paris, Galerie Kriegel, Berrocal: Sculptures de la "Serie del Crimen de Cuenca," November 1962, pp. 39-41 (another example exhibited)
New York, Albert Loeb Gallery, Berrocal, April - May 1965, n.p., illustrated
Paris, Galerie Kriegel, Berrocal, 1965, n.p., illustrated (another example exhibited)
Paris, Artcurial; Tokyo, 1982 Gallery Gekkoso, Berrocal: 25 Ans de Sculptures Editées 1964-1984, 1984, pp. 24 and 26, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Verona, Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Palazzo Forti, Berrocal: Sculture e Disegni 1958-1995, 1995, p. 49, illustrated (another example exhibited)

Literature

Miguel Berrocal, Berrocal: Lamini Zoraida, Hommage a Paloma, Verona, 1971, p. 15
Giuseppe Marchiori, La sculpture de Berrocal, Brussels, 1973, cat. no. 50, p. 45, illustrated
Miguel Berrocal and Michel Tapié, Berrocal: Catalogo General Obras Recientes 1974, Madrid, 1974, p. 67, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Ulm, Ulmer Museum, Miguel Berrocal: Skulpturen, 1987, p. 48, illustrated in color
Jean-Louis Ferrier, Berrocal, Paris, 1989, p. 121, illustrated

Abitare, No. 351, May 1996, pp. 126-127, illustrated in color

Condition

This work is in very good and sound condition overall. There are scattered surface abrasions, scattered dirt and accretions in the crevices, all to be expected of a work installed in an outdoor environment. The patina has oxidized in spots. Please note the auction begins at 9:00 am on November 12th.
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