ARMANDO REVERÓN | Cocoteros

Francisco Narváez, Caracas (acquired from the artist)
Private Collection, North America (by descent from the above) 
Acquired from the above 

Juan Calzadilla, Armando Reverón, Caracas, 1991, no. 258, illustrated in color p. 220 

This work is essentially in perfect condition. The heavy burlap linen is stretched on a good stretcher. On the reverse, there are two small reinforcements in the center of the right side that do not seem to address any visible damages. Although some of the artist's original pigment reads strongly under ultraviolet light, no retouches are apparent. The work does not seem to have been cleaned or varnished, as is appropriate given the sensitive and delicate nature. The work has been affixed to the frame at the edges of the stretcher. (This condition report has been provided courtesy of Simon Parkes Art Conservation, Inc.)
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"In Reverón's paintings of the exhausting light of the shore where...perhaps only the sea rests with the mountains' shadows and the calcined trees—the artist confronts us with the limits of seeing and of what is seen: of seeing what is not seen; of seeing where nothing can be seen; of seeing what we see...His compositions are always on the margins of day: at dawn, vesperal or nocturnal, when things lose their edge. Even situated at the center of light, his paintings mirror the violent tropical brightness of the sun that is so intense it cannot be looked at."  —Luis Pérez-Oramas, "Armando Reverón and Modern Art in Latin America" in Armando Reverón (exhibition catalogue), New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 2007, p. 90