Armando Morales (1927-2011)

Private Collection, London

There is a speckle of paint loss on the center of the composition. Minor rubbing to the edges. Otherwise in very good condition.
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"'True paradises are ones we've lost,' Proust wrote. In assaying the astounding career of Armando Morales and his hauntingly enigmatic work it is possible to approach the paradise to which this artist has returned. Paris, Morales has said, motivated him to paint the forests of Latin America, echoing an experience of exile that was all too common among Latin American artists of his generation. 'One is never closer to one's origins than when one is physically distant from them.'"

Christian Viveros-Fauné, "Chronicle of a Painting Foretold: New Works by Armando Morales," Armando Morales, 2004