Manolo Millares

Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York
Acquis auprès de celle-ci par le propriétaire actuel

José-Augusto França, Millares, éditions Cercle d'Art, Paris 1991, no.178, illustré p. 104

This work is in excellent condition.
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signed; signed and titled on the stretcher; oil on burlap, thread. Executed in 1962.

Fig. 1 Millares devant Homuncule, 1962 (technique mixte, 200x260cm). - © D.R.

Millares a fait siennes ces toiles à sac dont il ignore tout. En même temps, les tableaux de Millares se chargent d'un feu nouveau: scènes de crime ou scène de théâtre, ils révèlent le mystère de leurs toiles à sac, avec tout le luxe de leur pauvreté et avec toute la force de leur pouvoir de suggestion... Seules ces toiles lui permettent de porter à un aussi haut degré cette catégorie de sa création: les reliefs.

(Jose-Augusto França, op. cit., pp. 190-197.)