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Joaquín Torres-García

Still Life with Flowers

Auction Closed

May 18, 09:51 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, Peru

Joaquín Torres-García

1874 - 1949

Still Life with Flowers

signed J. Torres-García (lower left) and dated 47 (lower right)

oil on canvas laid down on board

19⅝ by 16 in.

49.8 by 40.6 cm.

Executed in 1947.

This work is included in the online catalogue raisonné of Joaquín Torres-García (www.torresgarcia.com) as no. 1947.16.

Private Collection, Canada (acquired directly from the artist in Montevideo circa 1948)

Sotheby's New York, 22 November 1988, lot 244 (consigned by the above)

Walter Piazza Tangüis, Lima (acquired from the above)

María Cecilia Piazza, Lima (by descent from the above)

Thence by descent to the present owner