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Lot 141
  • 141

Equipo Crónica

Estimate
18,000 - 25,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Equipo Crónica
  • El Huevo de Pascua
  • signed and numbered 37-50 on the reverse

  • hand painted papier maché
  • 105 by 70 by 45cm.; 41 3/8 by 27 5/8 by 17 3/4 in.
  • Executed in 1968-69, this work is number 37 from an edition of 50.

Provenance

Galería Cayón, Madrid
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner

Literature

Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao ed., Equipo Crónica: Catalogación Obra Gráfica y Múltiples, (1965/1982), Bilbao 1988, p. 130, illustration of another example in colour
Michèle Dalmace, Equipo Crónica: Catálogo Razonado, Valencia 2001, pp. 97-99, illustrations of other examples in colour

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the overall tonality is deeper and richer in the original. The catalogue illustration fails to fully convey the three dimensionality of the work, apparent in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. On close inspection there are a small number of very fine isolated hairline cracks scattered in places to the figures skirt, and a further very fine crack running from the back of the figure's left arm to the top of the back of the skirt. Visible in the lighter areas of pigment, there is some light, superficial surface dirt.
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