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Lot 188
Olga De Amaral (Colombian b. 1932)
Lienzo ceremonial 24
Closed28 May 2014
Price Realised
USD 68,750
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Specialist note
We are grateful to Valentina Amaral for her assistance cataloguing this work.
This work is catalogued in the artist's archives under reference number 917.
Her visit to Japan was crucial to her life and her work, as important as Peru or the sojourns in the small towns of the Colombian highlands. Indigo was etched in her mind because of the Japanese textiles and their ultramarine tones. For Olga, indigo is the color of liberty, of an open mind, a reminder of the mountains in Santander province of Colombia or North Carolina, dream visions, water and wind, the intense purity of color.
J.C. Moyano Ortiz, "A Closer look at the Life and Work of Olga de Amaral," Olga de Amaral: The Mantle of Memory (Paris: Galerie Agnès Montplaisir and Bogotá, Amaral Editores, S.A.S, 2013), 60.
This work is catalogued in the artist's archives under reference number 917.
Her visit to Japan was crucial to her life and her work, as important as Peru or the sojourns in the small towns of the Colombian highlands. Indigo was etched in her mind because of the Japanese textiles and their ultramarine tones. For Olga, indigo is the color of liberty, of an open mind, a reminder of the mountains in Santander province of Colombia or North Carolina, dream visions, water and wind, the intense purity of color.
J.C. Moyano Ortiz, "A Closer look at the Life and Work of Olga de Amaral," Olga de Amaral: The Mantle of Memory (Paris: Galerie Agnès Montplaisir and Bogotá, Amaral Editores, S.A.S, 2013), 60.