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Nathan Oliveira

Horse's Head

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July 19, 06:33 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Nathan Oliveira

1928 - 2010

Horse's Head


signed Oliveira and dated 62 (upper right)

oil on canvas

59¾ by 44¾ in.

101 by 113.7 cm.

Executed in 1962.

The Alan Gallery, New York

Serge Sorokko Gallery, San Francisco

Private Collection (acquired from the above in 2000)

Christie's New York, 13 November 2008, lot 273 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

San Jose Museum of Art; Purchase College, Neuberger Museum of Art; Palm Springs Desert Museum; Newport Beach, Orange County Museum of Art; Tacoma Art Museum, Nathan Oliveira, 2003, no. 38, p. 59, illustrated in color

“You have to deal with the figure and look at it as a composition, a pictorial composition of nice movement and manipulation of space.” — Nathan Oliveira