Francisco Narváez

Guaiquerí (Desnudo con hoja de Cambur)

Lot Closed

May 14, 04:29 PM GMT

Estimate

25,000 - 30,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Estate of Bernard Chappard

Francisco Narváez

1905 - 1982

Guaiquerí (Desnudo con hoja de Cambur)

Inscribed Narváez, numbered 7/8 and stamped with the foundry mark Susse Fondeur

Bronze

Height: 31½in. (80 cm)

Conceived circa 1930 and cast by The Susse Foundry, Paris in 1980-81 in a numbered edition of 8.

Private Collection, Venezuela (and sold: Sotheby’s, New York, May 28, 1985, lot 14A)
Acquired at the above sale

Alfredo Boulton, Narváez, Milan, 1981, n.n., illustration of another cast pp. 36-39 and on the back cover

Roberto Cobas Amate, Cuban Art: The Ascending Spiral, Havana, 2019, no. 21, illustrated in color p. 21