Gego - Latin America New York Wednesday, November 18, 2015 | Phillips

Latin America

New York Auction 18 November 2015 6pm

  • Provenance

    Sicardi Gallery, Houston
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Artist Biography

    Gego

    Venezuelan • 1912 - 1994

    Venezuelan artist Gego is internationally recognized as a leading female figure of abstraction in Latin America. Gego (Gertrude Goldschmidt) studied architecture and worked as a draughtsman in various firms in Germany before immigrating to Venezuela in 1939.

    Gego's experimentation with pure abstraction in the late 1950s culminated in her most important series, produced in the 1980s, titled Dibujos sin Papel (Drawings Without Paper). In this series, she utilized industrial materials in suspended wire sculptures. These seemingly banal yet technically sophisticated sculptures are representative of the artist's mature style and were undoubtedly informed by her training as an architect. With the series Reticulárea ambiental, Gego built upon the Dibujo sin Papel and further highlighted her interest in spatial abstraction by creating expansive, engulfing sculptures of metal scraps.

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Gego

Líneas

1966
18 pages with 13 lithographs on Japanese paper bound in hardcover book
each 7 3/4 x 15 5/8 in. (19.7 x 39.6 cm)
This work is number 9 from an edition of 20. This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by Fundación Gego.

Estimate
$60,000 - 80,000 

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Latin America

New York Auction 18 November 2015 6pm