Pietrasantra Painting C.98.36
165.1 cms x 208.3 cms (65 ins x 82 ins)
Signed and on verso signed, titled and dated 1998
made in 1998
Lot offered for sale by Heffel, Vancouver at the auction event "October 2016 Online auction" held on Thu, Oct 27, 2016.
Lot 002
Lot 002
Estimate: CAD $25,000 - $35,000
Realised: CAD $35,400
Realised: CAD $35,400
Lot description - from the online catalogue*
Provenance:
Douglas Udell Gallery, Vancouver
Private Collection, Vancouver
Literature:
Meghan Daily, "Caio Fonseca Comes Out of Isolation," Interview magazine, 2012, http://www.interviewmagazine.com/art/caio-fonseca/, accessed September 21, 2016
Notes:
Caio Fonseca comes from a family of artists - his father is Uruguayan sculptor Gonzalo Fonseca. Caio was raised in New York City, and in 1978 went to Barcelona, where, until 1983, he studied with Augusto Torres and painted. In 1985 he moved to Pietrasanta, in northern Tuscany in Italy, where he worked until 1989. In the 1990s he returned to New York, and now divides his time between his Manhattan studio and his studio in Pietrasanta.
Fonseca stated, "My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there's an inner intelligence or logic. If you stop asking what they mean, or what they remind you of, and just look at them for 29 seconds, you find that they want to explain themselves and show you how much every tiniest detail is related to the whole."
In Pietrasantra Painting C.98.36, two fields - one white, the other brown, intersect with each other through their sinuous lines, popping back and forth in their dominance of the picture plane. Lines and marks play across all the surfaces, adding texture and nuance to the painting. In the brown field, paint seeps downward, evidence of the painting process. Pietrasantra Painting C.98.36 is both lyrical and elegant, and is an outstanding example of the artist's work.
Fonseca's paintings are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, among many others.
Please note: this work is unframed.
Douglas Udell Gallery, Vancouver
Private Collection, Vancouver
Literature:
Meghan Daily, "Caio Fonseca Comes Out of Isolation," Interview magazine, 2012, http://www.interviewmagazine.com/art/caio-fonseca/, accessed September 21, 2016
Notes:
Caio Fonseca comes from a family of artists - his father is Uruguayan sculptor Gonzalo Fonseca. Caio was raised in New York City, and in 1978 went to Barcelona, where, until 1983, he studied with Augusto Torres and painted. In 1985 he moved to Pietrasanta, in northern Tuscany in Italy, where he worked until 1989. In the 1990s he returned to New York, and now divides his time between his Manhattan studio and his studio in Pietrasanta.
Fonseca stated, "My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there's an inner intelligence or logic. If you stop asking what they mean, or what they remind you of, and just look at them for 29 seconds, you find that they want to explain themselves and show you how much every tiniest detail is related to the whole."
In Pietrasantra Painting C.98.36, two fields - one white, the other brown, intersect with each other through their sinuous lines, popping back and forth in their dominance of the picture plane. Lines and marks play across all the surfaces, adding texture and nuance to the painting. In the brown field, paint seeps downward, evidence of the painting process. Pietrasantra Painting C.98.36 is both lyrical and elegant, and is an outstanding example of the artist's work.
Fonseca's paintings are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, among many others.
Please note: this work is unframed.
Most realised prices include the Buyer's Premium of 18-25%, but not the HST/GST Tax.
(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Heffel auction house for permission to use.
(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Heffel auction house for permission to use.