Cuadro III

Details

Manolo Millares (1926-1972)
Cuadro III
signed 'MILLARES' (lower left); signed, titled and dated 'MILLARES - CUADRO 1959' (on the stretcher)
oil, twine and burlap on burlap

23 x 29in. (58.4 x 73.6cm.)

Executed in 1959

Provenance

Arthur and Sons. Ltd., London.
Private Collection (acquired from the above in the early 1960s).
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 02 July 1998, lot 197.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

A. de la Torre (ed.), Manolo Millares Pinturas Catálogo Razonado, Madrid 2004, no. 134 (illustrated in colour, p. 169).

Exhibited

London, Arthur Tooth & Sons Ltd, La Pintura des Espaaña, Ten Contemporary Spainish Painters (Cruixart, Feito, Lago, Lucio, Méndez, Millares, Saura, Tàpies, Tharrats, Vila-Casas), 1960, no. 22 (illustrated in colour, titled Cuadro II).
Norwich, Norwich Castle Art Museum, Manolo Millares, 1981, no. 40.

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Lot Essay

‘Art today performs a social function because it can call attention to pustules...The Artist must be able to make it hurt agonizingly. He is “only man, the world, a recorded of things in the raw, a need to express. He follows very closely the despair of our time, watches over it and sews up its wounds; he records it in the scream from the deepest hole and is murdered by its leprosy’
(Millares, quoted in Papeles de son Armadans, no. XXXVII, Madrid-Palma, April 1959).

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