Lot 61
  • 61

Miquel Barceló

Estimate
300,000 - 400,000 GBP
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Description

  • Miquel Barceló
  • In Extremis III (At the Last Extremity III)
  • acrylic and mixed media on joined canvas

  • 160 by 270cm.
  • 63 by 106 1/4 in.
  • Executed in 1994.

Provenance

Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zürich
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner circa 1998

Exhibited

Lugano, Museo d'Arte Moderna, Miquel Barceló, 2006-07, p. 81, no. 36, illustrated in colour

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate although there is slightly more red to the watermelon in the original. The catalogue illustration fails to fully capture the elements of the seeds on the surface and texture of the original work. Condition: This work is in very good condition.
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Catalogue Note

"What interests me in still life is to work with it as organic material, to feel it as pure material . . . Sometimes I use the elements as a pretext to create a kind of dance inside the picture"  The artist cited in: Exhibition Catalogue, Barcelona, Museu d'Art Contemporani, Miquel Barcelo 1987-1997, 1998, p. 16