Claudio Bravo (Chilean 1936-2011)

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Claudio Bravo (Chilean 1936-2011)
Beyond
signed 'CLAUDIO BRAVO' (lower left) dated 'MCMLXX' (lower right)
oil on canvas
40 1/8 x 30 in. (101.9 x 76.2 cm.)
Painted in 1970.

Provenance

Staempfli Gallery, New York.
The Estate of Dr. Robin Caird Watson, New York.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's New York, 18 November 1991, lot 60 (illustrated in color).
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, Claudio Bravo: Wrapped Packages, Miami, Bass Museum of Art, 1998, p. 31, no. 14 (illustrated in color).

Exhibited

Miami, Bass Museum of Art, Claudio Bravo: Wrapped Packages, 13 November-11 January 1998, no. 14.

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Lot Essay

Reality is not what you believe it is; I can create others more real and more imaginary...
– Claudio Bravo1

1 As quoted in B. Jelloun, “Claudio Bravo, Architect of Light” in Claudio Bravo and Morocco (Paris: Institut du monde Arabe, 2004), 14.

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