Lempertz · Lot 489
Ohne Titel (La Luz que se apaga)
Öl auf Wachs auf Holz
Auction date : 2023-06-07
Published result : 16380 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 13000
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José María Sicilia
Documented citizenships : Spain
José María Sicilia, born in Madrid in 1954, moved to Paris in 1980 after leaving his academic training. His early expressive landscapes gave way to an exploration of everyday objects and then of pictorial matter. A stay in New York in the mid-1980s accompanied this movement towards abstraction. He received Spain’s National Prize for Visual Arts in 1989.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he investigated white surfaces and introduced wax combined with oil paint. Light, transparency and traces became central to these explorations. L’Horabaixa, held at the Palacio de Velázquez in 1997, brought together wax panels on wood. The series La luz que se apaga extends this attention to the appearance and disappearance of forms within the painted surface.
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Lempertz · Piguet
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Lempertz · Lot 490
Ohne Titel (La Luz que se apaga)
Öl auf Wachs auf Holz
Auction date : 2023-06-07
Published result : 16380 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 13000
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Lempertz · Lot 362
Ohne Titel (La Luz)
Öl auf Bienenwachs auf Holz
Auction date : 2021-06-18
Published result : 23750 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 16000
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Piguet
Los Panos de Oro
huile, cire et papier, monogrammée et datée 98
Catalogue period : 2019-09-25
Published result : 1800 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 1500–2500
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Piguet
In bloom,
Mixed media on paper
Original catalogue wording
En Flor,
technique mixte sur papier
Catalogue period : 2019-09-25
Published result : 1300 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 2000–3000
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