Alvaro Barrington - Modern & Contemporary Art: Online Auction, New York New York Wednesday, February 26, 2025 | Phillips

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26 February - 11 March 2025

  • “I frequently use burlap and through that I think about the burlap sacks used in cocoa production, or Gauguin who painted on burlap, or the Arte povera artists. I'm tapping into something I've experienced but also how art history has thought about that material.”
    —Alvaro Barrington

    • Provenance

      Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York
      Acquired from the above by the present owner

    • Exhibited

      New York, Nicola Vassell Gallery, The Earth, That is Sufficient, July 15–September 3, 2021

    • Literature

      Shelton Boyd-Griffith, "'The Earth, That is Sufficient,' Opens at Nicola Vassell Gallery," Grazia Magazine, n.d., online (Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York, 2021 installation view illustrated)

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Alvaro Barrington

1363-1965

signed with the artist's initials and dated "AB 20" on the reverse
mixed media on burlap paper, in artist's frame
11 1/2 x 14 1/2 in. (29.2 x 36.8 cm)
Executed in 2020.

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Estimate
$7,000 - 10,000 

Sold for $21,590

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Modern & Contemporary Art: Online Auction, New York

26 February - 11 March 2025