Armando Morales (Nicaraguan 1927-2011)

Deux baigneuses et chevaux

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Armando Morales (Nicaraguan 1927-2011)
Deux baigneuses et chevaux
signed and dated 'MORALES/91' (lower right) inscribed 'No. 4/2 BAIGNEUSES, CHEVAUX, 1992' (on the back stretcher bar)
oil and beeswax on canvas
63¾ x 51¼ in. (161.9 x 130.2 cm.)
Painted in 1991/1992.

Provenance

Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, Armando Morales: Peintures récentes, Paris, Galerie Claude Bernard, 1992, no. 4 (illustrated in color).
L. L. Elizondo, 'Armando Morales rescatando la luz interior' in Resumen, pintores y pintura latinoamericana, Mexico, Año 8, no. 63, 1993, p. 1-25, p. 4 (illustrated in color).
L. Kassner, Morales, Mexico City, Américo Arte Editores, 1995, p. 140, no. 112 (illustrated in color).
X. Xiaosheng, Morales, Beijing, Art Edition Jiangxi, 1995, p. 64 (illustrated in color).
C. Loewer, Armando Morales: Monograph & Catalogue Raisonné, Volume II 1984-1993, Vaumarcus, ArtAcatos, 2010, p. 381, no. 1992.3 (illustrated in color).

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Claude Bernard, Armando Morales: Peintures récentes, 24 October- 1 November 1992, no. 4.

Lot Essay

Armando Morales is capable of painting anything, any instant in time, or any feeling, without submitting to the tyranny of a trend. He is a realist of a reality that only he understands and that could just as easily be the XVI century as the XXI...

Gabriel García Márquez, quoted in L. Kassner, Morales, (Mexico City: Américo Arte Editores, S.A. de C.V., 1995) 129.

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