ID 1515033
Lot 62 | Jesús Rafael Soto. Double Blanc
Estimate value
€ 180 000 – 240 000
1923 Ciudad Bolivar/Venezuela - 2005 Paris
Title: "Double Blanc".
Date: 1967.
Technique: Oil on canvas with metal mobile construction.
Measurement: 158 x 158cm.
Notation: Titled, signed and dated verso upper right: "DOUBLE BLANC" Soto 1967. Additionally with direction indication.
Provenance:
- Galerie Denise René, Paris (adhesive label)
- Galerie Buchholz, Munich (Cologne art market)
- Private collection, Cologne (acquired from the previous owner in 1970)
- Works of this size are rarely offered on the German auction market
- Soto's fascinating works achieve a fourth dimension: the optical expansion of the image through movement
- Sold at Galerie Denise René in Paris - the epicenter of kinetic art at the time
- Museum-quality work - offered on the market for the first time in over 50 years
"If a work of art has an origin, it lies solely in the reflection, rigour, and logic of artistic inquiry. Art is not expression; art is knowledge." (Jesús Rafael Soto, quoted in Joray, Marcel / Soto, Jesús Rafael: SOTO, Neuchâtel, 1984).
| Artist: | Jesús Rafael Soto (1923 - 2005) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil |
| Auction house category: | Post War |
| Artist: | Jesús Rafael Soto (1923 - 2005) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil |
| Auction house category: | Post War |
| Address of auction |
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