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    Sale 8533

    20th Century Colombian Art

    London, South Kensington

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    12 October 1999

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    • Fanny Sann (b.1938)
    Lot 34

    Fanny Sann (b.1938)

    Composicin No.4

    Price realised

    GBP 1,955

    Estimate

    GBP 1,500 - GBP 2,500

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    Fanny Sann (b.1938)
    Composicin No.4
    signed and dated lower right and titled lower left Fanny Sann 86 Composicin No.4
    acrylic on woven paper
    22 x 30in. (56 x 76cm.)
    Executed in 1986

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    Lot Essay

    "...Ms. Sann's architectonic forms, so beautifully executed, need no experience, no explanation. Nothing can surpass the illumination that comes from a perfect understanding of abstract beauty. For the classicists who feel abstraction has nothing to contribute, it is a gentle reminder that the tradition of classical aesthetics has taught us to describe and to evaluate artistic form in terms of harmony and equilibrium... Moments are locked into place - frozen by strong organization, by an almost mathematical ordering of planes in space parallel to the pictures surface, and by deliberately aligned vertical accents. These are traditional tools of the classical artist - Giotto, Poussin, David."
    Richard Humphrey

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