Olga De Amaral (Colombian b. 1932)

Lienzo ceremonial 24

Details

Olga De Amaral (Colombian b. 1932)
Lienzo ceremonial 24
signed, dated and titled 'LIENZO CEREMONIAL 24 OLGA DE AMARAL 1998' (on a fabric label adhered on the verso)
acrylic on linen
61½ x 59 in. (156.2 x 149.6)
Painted in 1998.

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner (2006).

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, Olga de Amaral: Bosques, Estelas, Umbras, Tokyo, Japan, Hillside Terrace, 1999, p. 8 (illustrated in color).
Exhibition catalogue, Olga de Amaral: Bosques, Estelas, Umbras, Bogotá, Galería Diners, 1999, p. 10 (illustrated in color).
J.C. Moyano Ortiz, R. Pau-Llosa, et al., Olga de Amaral: El manto de la memoria, Bogotá, Zona Ediciones, 2000, p. 138 (illustrated in color).
Exhibition catalogue, Resonancias, Lisboa, Portugal, Centro Cultural de Belém, 2005, p. 30 (illustrated in color).

Exhibited

Bogotá, Galería Diners, Olga de Amaral: Estelas, Bosques, Umbras, February, 1999.
Tokyo, Hillside Terrace, Olga de Amaral: Bosques, Estelas, Umbras, May 1999.
Buenos Aires, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mes de Colombia, 2001.
Lima, Museo de la Nación, Tiempos y tierra, 2002.
Washington, D.C., Embassy of Colombia, Threaded Words, May 2004.
Lisboa, Portugal, Centro Cultural de Belém, Resonancias, 14 September-14 October 2005.

Lot Essay

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.

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