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MANOLO MILLARES (1926-1972)
Lot 142

MANOLO MILLARES (1926-1972)

El Inquisidor (The Inquisitor)

Closed7 March 2018

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GBP 175,000

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MANOLO MILLARES (1926-1972)
El Inquisidor (The Inquisitor)
signed 'MILLARES' (lower left); signed, titled and dated 'MILLARES - "EL INQUISIDOR" 1968' (on the stretcher)
mixed media on burlap
39 ¾ x 32 ¼in. (101 x 82cm.)
Executed in 1968

Galerie Messine, Paris.
Galerie Louis Carré & Co., Paris.
Private Collection, Paris.
Galería Jorge Mara, Madrid.
Private Collection, Oviedo (acquired from the above circa 1998).
Thence by descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

‘My love of the unknown, my desire of these infinite holes of mystery’
–Manolo Millares