Live Auction 2747Latin American Art
Armando Morales (Nicaraguan 1927-2011)
Lot 16

Armando Morales (Nicaraguan 1927-2011)

Deux baigneuses et chevaux

Closed20 November 2013

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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.

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

Specialist note

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.