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Lot 182
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Joan Hernández Pijuan

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Joan Hernández Pijuan
  • Memoria d´Evora I
  • signed, titled and dated 1990 on the reverse

  • oil on canvas
  • 145 by 162cm.; 57 1/8 by 63 3/4 in.

Provenance

Galería Joan Prats, Barcelona
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía; Monterrey,  Museo de Monterrey, Hernández Pijuan: Espacios de silencio 1972-1992, 1993, p. 132, no. 64, illustrated in colour

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the overall tonality is deeper and richer in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. There are fine, stable and consistent drying cracks visible in places throughout. No restoration is apparent when examined under ultra-violet light.
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