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Lot 490
  • 490

Guillermo Kuitca

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description

  • Guillermo Kuitca
  • Untitled

  • signed, titled and dated 1995 on the reverse

  • oil on canvas
  • 76 1/4 by 74 1/8 in. 193.7 by 188.3 cm.

Provenance

Sperone Westwater, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1997

Exhibited

New York, Sperone Westwater, Guillermo Kuitca: Puro Teatro, October - December 1995, illustrated on cover
Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Distemper: Dissonant Themes in the Art of the 1990s, June - September 1996

Literature

Exh. Cat., Paris, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Guillermo Kuitca, oeuvres récentes, April - May 2000, p. 70, illustrated

Catalogue Note

Kuitca is a painter of modern life. He re-embeds modern life into modern art, but more than that, he is a painter of the pathos and the drama of modern life; the moments that define us, the touchstone times, the times we half remember and half forget, and all the misty stretches of oblivion that settle between our precious nebulous segmented memories. He paints the brooding moody shadow-play of life." – Jerry Saltz (Meghan Ferrill, ed., A Book Based on Guillermo Kuitca, Amsterdam, 1993, p. 123)

Guillermo Kuitca has been selected to represent Argentina in the forthcoming Biennale Internazionale d’arte, Venezia, 52nd International Art Exhibition June 10 – November 27, 2007.