Lot 185
  • 185

Jorge Oteiza

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 GBP
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Description

  • Jorge Oteiza
  • Expansión (Desocupación de la Esfera)
  • incised with the monogram and numbered 1/3
  • painted iron
  • 45 by 50 by 45.5cm.; 17¾ by 19 5/8 by 17 7/8 in.
  • Executed in 1958.

Provenance

Haim Chanin Fine Arts, New York
Private Collection, Paris

Exhibited

New York, Haim Chanin Fine Arts, Jorge Oteiza, 2003, p. 37

Literature

Exhibition Catalogue, Girona, Centre Cultural Fontana d'Or de Caixa de Girona, Oteiza, El Obrero Metafisico, 2003, p. 100, illustration of another cast

Condition

Colours: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the tonality of the grey is deeper and richer in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. On the back side of the sculpture there are two very faint rub marks towards the lower edge.
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