Raul Anguiano (Mexican B. 1915)

La espina

Details

Raul Anguiano (Mexican B. 1915)
La espina
signed and dated 'R. Anguiano 66' (lower left), signed and dated again and titled (on the reverse)
acrylic on canvas
43¼ x 62½ in. (110 x 159 cm.)
Painted in 1966.

Provenance

Grupo Alfa collection, Monterrey.
Private collection, Monterrey.

Exhibited

Frankfurt, Schirn Kunstalle Frankfurt, Imágen de México: Der Beitrag Mexikos zur Kunst des 20.Jahrhunderts, December 1987- February 1988, p. 275, n. 8 (illustrated in color). This exhibition later traveled to Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art, Images of Mexico: the Contribution of Mexico to 20th Century Art, August-October 1988.
Monterrey, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Grandes Maestros Mexicanos: País de Realidad y Sueño, July 2002-January 2003, p. 276, n. 17 (illustrated in color).

Lot Essay

Raúl Anguiano declared that his painting was based on expressive forms taken from reality. Such an "expressive reality" is achieved through allusions to the mythical past of indiginous cultures-- a quality found in Anguiano's compositions. Illustrating this theme are the two versions of La espina. The first, currently in the collection of the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City, is a mirror image of the work presented here. Painted some years apart, both works recollect the "Poetic Realism" associated with the artist's most popular period.

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