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Olga de Amaral (b. 1932)

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description

  • Olga de Amaral
  • Policromo VII
  • signed, titled and dated 2011 on label affixed to the reverse
  • acrylic, gold leaf, gesso, and plaster elements on linen
  • 60 by 12 in.
  • 152 by 30 cm

Provenance

Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe
Private Collection, Miami

Literature

Galerie Agnès Monplaisir, Olga de Amaral: The Mantle of Memory, Paris, 2013, no. OA1291, p. 255 

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. All of the fiber and plaster elements are accounted for and securely affixed, and the media layer is stable.
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Catalogue Note

I began to work with fiber by coincidence –a sought coincidence- and have continued with it because it has never disappointed me. As I get to know it better, the better it knows me. In short, it has never stopped arousing my curiosity. Fiber is like an old pencil: one has used it for so long that you take it for granted. I am made of fiber because I have embraced it and because I know it.

Olga de Amaral, in Matthew Drutt et al., Olga de Amaral, The Mantle of Memory, Paris, 2013, p. 75