Pintura no.48

Details

Rafael Canogar (b. 1935)
Pintura no.48
signed and dated 'Canogar 59' (lower right); signed, titled and dated 'Canogar Sep. de 1959, PINTURA No.48' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
78¾ x 59in. (200 x 149.8cm.)
Painted in September 1959

Provenance

Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York (#4091).
Acquavella Modern Art, Nevada (#2387).
Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 18 October 1990, lot. 88.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Literature

G. Crapanzano, Canogar Catalogo General, vol. I, Madrid 1992, (illustrated in colour, on the front cover).

Exhibited

New York, Gallery Pierre Matisse, Four Spanish Painters (El Paso), 1959.
Paris, Paris Art Centre, Rafael Canogar, March-April 1987. This exhibition later travelled to Bochum, Museum Bochum Kunstsammlung, September-October 1987.
Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Canogar Cincuenta Años de Pintura, March-May 2001, no. 95 (illustrated in colour, p. 79).

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Lot Essay

While discussing his art in relation to the El Paso group, of which he was a key member, Canogar stated that, "Our art started as an answer to the needs of that time, with the will to transform the art world and make it dynamic, with an art that was at the same time a protest - violent, daring and mystical. A movement of self-affirmation, breaking away from formal structures and sterile certainties. Our informal art was to connect with the most profound roots of feeling and being Spanish, present in the painting of all times: Zurbarán, Velázquez and Goya..." (Rafael Canogar, at the conference, El Paso y Las Vanguardias, Instituto Cervantes, London 9 December 1998).

Pintura no.48

Lot Essay

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