Live Auction 13581Impressionist and Modern Art
Manuel Ángeles Ortiz (1895- 1984)
Lot 4

Manuel Ángeles Ortiz (1895- 1984)

El mendigo

Closed3 March 2017

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GBP 5,250

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Manuel Ángeles Ortiz (1895- 1984)
El mendigo
signed, dated and inscribed 'Manuel Angeles Ortiz Paris 1939' (upper right)
brush and ink and wash on paper
28 ¼ x 21 ¼ in. (71.7 x 54 cm.)
Executed in Paris in 1939

Private collection, South America.
Acquired from the above and thence by descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

El mendigo, was executed in 1939 just after Ortiz’s release from a concentration camp by his good friend Pablo Picasso and just prior to his exile to Argentina. This work was executed two years after Picasso’s famous masterpiece Guernica, and the influence of Cubism and Picasso’s distinctive style, here also in black and white, is evident in this work.