Jesús Rafael Soto

Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona 
Collection of Don Sanders, Houston (acquired from the above) 
Acquired from the above by the present owner 

This work is in very good and sound condition overall. The colors are vibrant, the media layer is stable, and all of the metal and wooden elements are secure. A pinpoint spot of loss is present on the extreme lower left corner of the brown square in the lower left quadrant. An additional pinpoint spot of loss is present in the upper right corner of the blue square in the lower left quadrant.
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 “The Ambivalencias are the solution I found to a number of issues that were more or less implicit in [the work of] the great Western artists from the end of the nineteenth century onward, but that had not been developed. As a result of the Fauves, of individuals like Matisse, Léger, Delaunay, the Russian constructivists, and in general those who tried to use color independently of form and extra-pictorial content, the power and ambiguity of color become manifest, and we witness its capacity to generate the illusion of a space that is optically variable, as some dots seem to advance while other seem to recede. Later, Swiss artists and some Germans like Josef Albers proposed the independence of color, but without consciously solving what I have called the spatial ambivalence of color. I then felt that color needed and demanded a space-time solution that could find a place within the spatial ambiguity that I was interested in revealing.” Jesús Rafael Soto, Jesús Rafael Soto: In Conversation with Ariel Jiménez, New York, 2011, p.94-5