ID 721105
Lot 79 | Olga De Amaral (b. 1932)
Estimate value
$ 120 000 – 180 000
Cesta lunar 66
signed, dated, and numbered 'OLGA DE AMARAL, CESTA LUNAR 66, 923, 1999' (on a label affixed to the verso)
acrylic, gold leaf, thread and gesso on linen
42 x 70 in. (106.7 x 177.8 cm.)
Executed in 1999.
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist.
Literature
E. Lucie-Smith, Olga de Amaral: el manto de la memoria, Bogotá, Zona Ediciones, 2000, pp. 81-82 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Notre Dame, Indiana, Snite Museum of Art at University of Notre Dame, Parallel Currents: Highlights of the Ricardo Pau-Llosa Collection of Latin American Art, 29 August - 14 November 2010 (illustrated in color) .
New York, El Museo del Barrio, Caribbean: Crossroads of the World, 12 June 2012- 6 January 2013. This exhibition also traveled to Miami, Pérez Art Museum, 18 April - 17 August 2014.
Post Lot Text
1 Olga de Amaral, The House of My Imagination: Lecture by Olga de Amaral at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 24, 2003 (Bogotá: Zona, 2003), 6-8.
2 Ibid., 7, 9-11.
3 Ibid., 11.
4 De Amaral, quoted in Anna Walker, “Square Words and Gold Landscapes: Building a Life in Textiles,” in Olga de Amaral: To Weave a Rock (Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2020), 21.
5 Ibid., 12-13.
| Artist: | Olga de Amaral (1932) |
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| Art style: | Contemporary art |
| Place of origin: | Colombia, South America |
| Artist: | Olga de Amaral (1932) |
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| Art style: | Contemporary art |
| Place of origin: | Colombia, South America |
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