Lot 184
  • 184

Carlos Orozco Romero (1898 - 1984)

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Description

  • Carlos Orozco Romero
  • El Eclipse
  • signed and dated 1952 lower right

  • oil on canvas
  • 37 5/8 by 29 5/8 in.
  • 95.5 by 75.3 cm

Provenance

Galería de Arte Moderno, Mexico City
Dolores Álvarez Bravo, Mexico
Galería Gabriela Orozco, Mexico

Exhibited

Monterrrey, Museo de Monterrey, 1954
Havana, Casa de las Américas, Pintura y grabado contemporáneo, December 1959

Condition

The canvas is unlined and varnished with a mat varnish. There are some large cracks under the varnish in several areas: some in the body of the woman, a vertical one to her right near the other two figures and a couple by the upper left corner and by the upper right corner. There is a possible retouch in the upper part of the left edge at the level of the woman's hand.
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