JOSÉ PARLÁ | ALL TOYS BLACKOUT
Lot Closed
July 18, 04:22 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
JOSÉ PARLÁ
b. 1973
ALL TOYS BLACKOUT
signed, dated 2000 and inscribed This City Always Changes on the reverse
plaster, ink, acrylic, oil and enamel on board
36 by 72 in. (81.3 by 182.9 cm.)
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Miami (acquired directly from the artist in 2001)
Private Collection, Miami (acquired directly from the artist in 2001)
“My earliest paintings were made on walls at night. My thought and impulse behind the gesture was as primitive as that of cavemen marking and drawing in their dwellings to assert their existence in a place and time."
(José Parlá, “Research and Memory”, Walls, Diaries, and Paintings, May 2001)