ID 721198
Lot 43 | Alejandro Obregón (1920-1992)
Estimate value
$ 100 000 – 150 000
El toro
signed ‘Obregón’ (lower left)
oil on canvas
32 x 39 1⁄2 in. (81.3 x 100.3 cm.)
Painted circa 1985.
Provenance
Private collection, Texas.
By descent from the above to the present owner.
Post Lot Text
1 Marta Traba to Thomas Messer, March 15, 1965, in Thomas M. Messer, The Emergent Decade: Latin American Painters and Painting in the 1960s (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1966), 114.
2 Messer to Traba, December 23, 1964, in Messer, The Emergent Decade, 102.
3 Alejandro Obregón, quoted in Messer, The Emergent Decade, 105.
4 Obregón, quoted in J. G. Cobo Borda, “Alejandro Obregón, Painter,” in Alejandro Obregón: Recent Paintings (Bogotá: Litografía Arco, 1982), 30.
5 Carmen María Jaramillo, Alejandro Obregón: el mago del Caribe (Bogotá: Asociación de Amigos del Museo Nacional de Colombia, 2001), xxvi, xxxv.
6 Cobo Borda, “Alejandro Obregón, Painter,” 32-3.
7 Gabriel García Márquez, “Obregón: A Wild Vocation,” in Alejandro Obregón: Recent Paintings, 11, 15.
| Artist: | Alejandro Obregon (1920 - 1992) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Place of origin: | Colombia, South America |
| Artist: | Alejandro Obregon (1920 - 1992) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Place of origin: | Colombia, South America |
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