Jesús Rafael Soto
Jesús Rafael Soto was a Venezuelan painter.
Based on ArtValue.ca records, Jesús Rafael Soto's estimated art value is C$200,000 (*)
Jesús Rafael Soto's work could be available for sale at public auction with prices in the range of C$100,000 - C$250,000, or even much higher.
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One of the most important Kinetic and Op artists of the twentieth century, Jesús Rafael Soto moved from Venezuela to Paris in 1950 and began to associate with Yaacov Agam, Victor Vasarely and other artists associated with the well-known Galerie Denise René. This gallery was instrumental in championing both Op and Kinetic art movements with seminal exhibitions such as Le Mouvement in 1955, which introduced and helped popularize the artistic movements. Soto produced Vibration métalliques in 1969 with the Éditions Denise René, a subsidiary of Galerie Denise René, and this work is a characteristic example of Soto's unique approach to working with spatial, optical and auditory phenomena. Continuous spatial variations are generated by the interaction and perspective of the viewer and in the optical illusion perceived by the mind, a hallmark of the Op art movement. The Museo de arte moderno Jesús Soto in Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela opened in 1973, and Soto's works are included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Tate Gallery in London, among others.