Sale 1841
New York
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31 May - 1 June 2007
Price realised
USD 180,000
Estimate
Armando Morales (Nicaraguan B. 1927) Deux baigneuses au prés d'une digue signed and dated 'MORALES/94' (lower right), numbered, titled and dated again 'No. 9 DEUX BAIGNEUSES AUPRES D'UNE DIGUE, 1994' (on the stretcher on the reverse) oil and beeswax on canvas 42 x 51¼ in. (107 x 130 cm.) Painted in 1994.
Provenance
Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris. Private collection, Miami.
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Literature
L. Kassner, Morales, Américo Arte Editores, Mexico City, 1995, pp. 145-147, no. 119 (illustrated in color; detail illustration in color).
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