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Antonio Saura Follow Grand Nu signed and dated 'Saura '59' upper left of the upper element oil on canvas, diptych overall 194 x 195 cm (76 3/8 x 76 3/4 in.) Painted in 1959.
Provenance Succession Antonio Saura Private Collection, Spain Private Collection, Switzerland Private Collection Exhibited Saint-Paul de Vence, Foundation Maeght, Le Nu au XXe Siècle , 4 July - 30 October 2000, no. 140, pp. 232-233, 275 (illustrated, p. 233) Madrid, Galerie Marlborough, Antonio Saura , 25 May - 25 June 2005 Cologne, Galerie Boisserée, Antonio Saura - "Damas-party" , 28 October - 1 November 2005 Literature Antonio Saura and Jacques Henric, eds., Erotica , Milan, 2008, no. 120, pp. 203, 299 (illustrated, p. 203) Catalogue Essay 'Saura's portraits are dissolved into wild shapes and violently convulsive movements. It is as though the inner life of the facial traits had been brought to melting point by some volcanic force. Saura concentrates the destructive energies by leaving the background of the picture flat and untouched...Light and dark patches collide with each other seem to discharge their contradictory energy in an explosion.' - Siegfried Gohr in: Antonio Saura , exh. cat., Lugano, Museo d'Arte Moderna, 1994, pp. 56-58 Read More