Live Auction 2600Latin American Sale
Tomás Sánchez (Cuban b. 1948)
Lot 28

Tomás Sánchez (Cuban b. 1948)

Llegada del caminante a la laguna

Closed21 November 2012

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USD 602,500

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Tomás Sánchez (Cuban b. 1948)
Llegada del caminante a la laguna
signed and dated 'Tomás Sánchez 99' (lower right) signed and dated again and titled 'Tomás Sánchez, 1999, LLEGADA DEL CAMINANTE A LA LAGUNA' (on the reverse)
acrylic on canvas
78¼ x 99 3/8 in. (199 x 252.4 cm.)
Painted in 1999.

Marlborough Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

For over thirty years Tomás Sánchez has been engaged in a constant re-investigation of the significance of landscape as a major form of artistic expression. This genre may have been exhausted and drained of all meaning beyond stereotypical kitsch. Sánchez reinvests it with a new set of signifiers which, once decoded by the viewer, reveal a depth of implication and a vocabulary of symbols that may be understood as nothing less than subversive within the parameters of contemporary art.

Edward Sullivan, Tomás Sánchez (Milan: Skira editore, 2003), 11.