Homenaje a Mallarmé

细节

Jorge Oteitza (b. 1908)
Homenaje a Mallarmé
inscised 'Este Mallarmé es mio OTEITZA' (on the sculpture)
painted iron
21¼ x 23 5/8 x 15¾in. (54 x 60 x 40cm.)
Executed in 1958

来源

Alberdi Collection, Bilbao.
Arte el Portalón, Vitoria.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

展览

San Sebastian, Kursaal, Arteare txagunea Oteiza, December 2000-January 2001 (illustrated, p. 256).
Zaragoza, Centro de exposiciones y congresos, Oteiza, May-June 2001, no. 40 (illustrated in colour, p. 113).

注意事项

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拍品专文

This work is accompanied by a photo-certificate from the artist.

Jorge Oteitza is considered, along with Eduardo Chillida, one of the most influential figures in Spanish Post-War sculpture. In 1957, after being awarded the Gran Premio International at the São Paulo Bienal, he abandoned figuration and expressionism to embark instead on an epic exploration of abstraction. Looking at Mondrian and Malevich, taking his inspiration, at least in the beginning, from both artists and their geometric idioms, he chose the cube, a perfect and pure shape, as the basic abstract element for his sculptural experimentation.

In Homenage a Mallarmé, Oteitza combines the evocation of his hallmark spatial concerns with an intense and personal homage to Stéphane Mallarmé, the French poet and leader of the Symbolist movement.