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Lot Essay
To be included in the forthcoming Antonio Saura catalogue raisonné being prepared by the Succesion Saura and Olivier Weber-Caflisch.
"The female body present in the majority of my pictures and drawings since 1954, often reduced to its most basic elements and subjected to every category of anomalous and monstrous treatments, could be considered an example of continuity, of the constant and affirmative presence of the human beignin Spanish art. It is primarily a structural support for action in order not to lose oneself, not to be engulfed in uncontrolled pictorial activity where chaos and lack of moderation annul affirmation" (Antonio Saura in exh. cat., Lugano, Museo d'Arte Moderna, Antonio Saura, 1994 p. 129).
"The female body present in the majority of my pictures and drawings since 1954, often reduced to its most basic elements and subjected to every category of anomalous and monstrous treatments, could be considered an example of continuity, of the constant and affirmative presence of the human beignin Spanish art. It is primarily a structural support for action in order not to lose oneself, not to be engulfed in uncontrolled pictorial activity where chaos and lack of moderation annul affirmation" (Antonio Saura in exh. cat., Lugano, Museo d'Arte Moderna, Antonio Saura, 1994 p. 129).