Lot 288
  • 288

Carlos Betancourt

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • Carlos Betancourt
  • Apito y cenizas with letter to Alberto
  • signed, number 5/5 and dated 01 on the reverse
  • metallic lambda print
  • 43 1/2 by 41 1/2 in.
  • 110.5 by 105.5 cm.

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist, 2001

Exhibited

San Antonio Museum of Art, Retratos: 2000 Years of Latin American Portraits, organized by the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC and El Museo del Barrio, 2006 (another example)
New York, Robert Miller Gallery, Carlos Betancourt, January 8-February 2, 2002 (another example)
Coral Gables, Florida, Lowe Art Museum,  Carlos Betancourt: Recent Photographic Works, August-September, 2002 (another example)

Literature

Denise Gerson, Carlos Betancourt: Recent Photographic Work, exhibition catalogue, Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida, 2002, illustrated on cover (another example)
Antonio Zaya; Robert Farris Thompson, Carlos Betancourt: Written on his own Skin, Southward Art, Latin American Review #10, 2005, p. 21 (another example)

Condition

In good overall condition.
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