Live Auction 3452Asian 20th Century Art (Day Sale)
ARTURO LUZ (FILIPINO, B. 1926)
Lot 533

ARTURO LUZ (FILIPINO, B. 1926)

Black Forms On White Space

Closed29 November 2015

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HKD 187,500

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ARTURO LUZ (FILIPINO, B. 1926)
Black Forms On White Space
lacquer on wood
each: 122 x 122 cm. (48 x 48 in.)
overall: 122 x 244 cm. (48 x 96 1/8 in.)
Executed in 2012

Private Collection, USA

Specialist note

"Everything I do I invent. I invent my material, I invent my own anatomy. I am after the gesture of the figure, the bone, the structure, and not the surface."
- Arturo Luz, (Cid Reyes, Arturo Luz, Ayala Foundation and the Crucible, Manila, 1999, p. 67)