Bidspirit auction | Manolo Millares: ”Forma Abisal”

Manolo Millares: ”Forma Abisal” - MILLARES, MANOLO 1926 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - 1972 Madrid Title: ”Forma Abisal”. Date: 1966. Technique: Mixed media, collaged on hessian. Measurement: 80 x 100cm. Notation: Signed lower left: MILLARES. As well as signed, titled and dated verso top of the stretcher: MiLLARES-FORMA ABiSAL (1966) as well as equipped with directional arrow and inscribed verso bottom of stretcher: BASE. Frame/Pedestal: Studio bar. Provenance: - Bayer Inc., USA - Bayer AG, Leverkusen (acquired from the previous owner in 2005) Exhibitions: - Museo Muncipal de Bellas Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife 1968 - Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin 2013 Literature: - Torre, Alfonso de la/Bonet, Juan Manuel/Fernández, Miriam: Manolo Millares. Pinturas. Catálogo Razonado, Madrid 2004, cat. rais. no. 457, fig. (here with different information on the work) - Exhib. cat. Museo de Arte Abstracto de las ”Casas Colgades” de Cuenca, Museo Muncipal de Bellas Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife 1968, fig. - Exhib. cat. From Beckmann to Warhol, Art of the 20th and 21st Centuries - The Bayer Collection, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Cologne 2013, p. 174, fig. - Unique material aesthetics - Profound historical references - Exemplary work from Millares' core oeuvre Estimated shipping costs for this lot: Arrangement after the auction. This lot will be sold under standard taxation (Condition of Sale §V5.1) Explanations to the Catalogue Manolo Millares Spain Post-War Art Post War 1960s Studio bar Abstract Painting Mixed media