ID 721175
Lot 68 | Jesús Rafael Soto (1923-2005)
Estimate value
$ 300 000 – 500 000
Caribe
signed, dated and titled 'Soto, 1971, CARIBE' (on the verso)
acrylic on wood with metal rods and monofilament
50 1⁄2 x 51 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄2 in. (129 x 131 x 21.6 cm.)
Executed in 1971.
Provenance
Private collection, Caracas (acquired directly from the artist).
Private collection, New York (acquired from the above by the present owner).
Post Lot Text
1 Jesús Rafael Soto, quoted in Ariel Jiménez, Conversations with Jesús Soto (Caracas: Fundación Cisneros, 2005), 168, 170.
2 Guy Brett, Soto, October-November 1969 (New York: Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, 1969), 14.
3 Ibid., 15-16.
| Artist: | Jesús Rafael Soto (1923 - 2005) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
| Medium: | Wood |
| Art style: | Abstract art, Contemporary art |
| Place of origin: | South America, Venezuela |
| Artist: | Jesús Rafael Soto (1923 - 2005) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
| Medium: | Wood |
| Art style: | Abstract art, Contemporary art |
| Place of origin: | South America, Venezuela |
| Address of auction |
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