Live Auction 5324Post War & Contemporary Art
Miquel Barceló (b. 1957)
Lot 256 My painting generates ideas, and then it sweeps them aside and they settle around the canvas, on the floor, with the roaches and the orange rinds . What holds the painting is not the ideas, it's something else, a kind of big ultimate idea: unutterable.

Miquel Barceló quoted in Barceló 1987-1997, Musea d'Art Contempori de Barcelona, 1998, p.192

Miquel Barceló (b. 1957)

Untitled

Closed13 December 2007

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GBP 72,500

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Miquel Barceló (b. 1957)
Untitled
signed 'M. Barceló' (lower right); and dated 'VIII 82' (lower left)
oil, charcoal and paper collage on cardboard laid down on board
50 x 37 1/8in. (127 x 94.4cm.)
Executed in 1982

Galería Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

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This work is accompanied by a photo-certificate signed by the artist.