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Lot 36*,AR

MANUEL RIVERA
(1927-1995)
Metamorfosis (Gris)
1960

Amended
16 March 2023, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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MANUEL RIVERA (1927-1995)

Metamorfosis (Gris)
1960

signed, titled, dated 1960 and inscribed in Spanish LIGHT WITH NATURAL OR INDIRECT LIGHT / TO AVOID SHADOWS / BASE on the reverse
mesh, wire and metal on wood

100.3 by 79.8 by 13 cm.
39 1/2 by 31 7/16 by 5 1/8 in.


Footnotes

With our thanks to Alfonso de la Torre, author of the Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, 1943 - 1994 by Manuel Rivera.

Provenance
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York (ST9267)
Acquavella Modern Art, Reno (#2120)
Alfred Hoh Collection, Germany
Horst Bittmann Collection, Germany
Galerie Arnés y Röpke, Madrid
Private Collection, Madrid (acquired circa 1995)
Thence by descent to the present owner

Literature
Miguel Logroño, 1956-1981 Manuel Rivera: Los dos lados del espejo, Madrid 1981, p. 54, listed
Marisa Rivera, Aproximación a un Catálogo Razonado, 1943-1994, Madrid 1997, p. 182, listed
Alfonso de la Torre, Manuel Rivera, Catálogo Razonado de Pinturas, 1943 - 1994, Madrid 2009, p. 164, no. [228] P-60-13, illustrated in colour

Exhibited
New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Manuel Rivera, Recent Paintings, 1960, n.p., no. 9, illustrated in black and white
Essen, Museum Folkwang; Altenburg, Lindenau-Museum, Metamorphosen - Espejos 1956 - 1966, 1994. p. 103, no. 27, illustrated in colour
Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Espacio Cultural Caja Canarias, El Paso. La descomposición de las formas, 2007, p. 101, illustrated in colour
Granada, José Guerrero Center, Manuel Rivera. From Granada to New York (1946-1960), 2012, p. 51, illustrated in colour

Saleroom notices

Please note this work is also signed recto.

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