Iberê Camargo (1914-1994)

Commissioned from the artist
Collection of Beatriz de Mello e Cunha
Thence by descent
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Paris, Galerie Debret, L'Ambassade du Brésil à Paris, Iberê Camargo, March 7-March 30, 1979, no. 15
Porto Alegre, Fundação Iberê Camargo, May 31-August 31, 2008; Curitiba, Museu Oscar Niemeyer, September 19-November 30, 2008, Iberê Camargo: moderno no limite, 1914-1994
Porto Alegre, Fundação Iberê Camargo, Iberê Camargo: século XXI, November 18, 2014-March 29, 2015

Zero Hora, Saturday, May 31, 2008, p. 42, illustrated in color

The paint layer seems to have been varnished at some point since it was painted. This varnish has begun to delaminate from the original paint layer, causing noticeable milky areas throughout the composition. This varnish should be carefully removed. Ideally, this is a work that would remain unvarnished. The heavily applied paint layer has no visible instability or any signs of restoration. There is possibly a small loss on the lower center edge and another beneath the first “7” of the date “77”in the lower right. The paint layer is otherwise very healthy. (This condition report has been provided courtesy of Simon Parkes Art Conservation, Inc.)
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'I have no sort of intellectual pretension of becoming an abstract painter.'
Iberê Camargo