Lot Essay
This work is sold with a certificate of authenticity signed by Clemente Orozco V and dated 5 January 2009; and is registered in the archives under number 3637.
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Desnudo (Pose con brazos conformando un trapecio)
Details
José Clemente Orozco (Mexican 1883-1949)
Desnudo (Pose con brazos conformando un trapecio)
signed and dated 'J.C. Orozco 1946' (lower right)
oil and gouache on paper laid on masonite
26¾ x 19½ in. (68 x 49.5 cm.)
Painted in 1946.
Desnudo (Pose con brazos conformando un trapecio)
signed and dated 'J.C. Orozco 1946' (lower right)
oil and gouache on paper laid on masonite
26¾ x 19½ in. (68 x 49.5 cm.)
Painted in 1946.
Provenance
Acquired from the artist.
Anon. sale, Christie's, 29 November 1983, lot 44 (illustrated in color).
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Anon. sale, Christie's, 29 November 1983, lot 44 (illustrated in color).
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
J. Fernández, Obras de José Clemente Orozco en la Colección Carrillo Gil -Mexico, Mexico City, 1949, no. 66 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Mexico City, Palacio de Bellas Artes, José Clemente Orozco: Exposición Nacional, 1947, no. 596.
Boston, The Institute of Contemporary Art and the Fogg Art Museum, J.C. Orozco Memorial Exhibition, 4 December 1952 - 11 January 1953, no. 112. This exhibition later traveled to Toronto, Art Gallery of Toronto; Wilmington, Delaware Art Center; Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts; Pasadena, The Pasadena Art Institute (now the Norton Simon Museum); San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art; Minneapolis, Minneapolis Institute of Arts; and Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art.
Boston, The Institute of Contemporary Art and the Fogg Art Museum, J.C. Orozco Memorial Exhibition, 4 December 1952 - 11 January 1953, no. 112. This exhibition later traveled to Toronto, Art Gallery of Toronto; Wilmington, Delaware Art Center; Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts; Pasadena, The Pasadena Art Institute (now the Norton Simon Museum); San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art; Minneapolis, Minneapolis Institute of Arts; and Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art.