A work by Pablo Picasso will be displayed in Colombia

Works by artists such as Carlos Rojas, Ana Mercedes Hoyos, Alejandro Obregón, David Manzur, Omar Rayo, Negret, Pablo Picasso, Carlos Jacanamijoy, Ramírez Villamizar, Olga de Amaral, Beatriz González, among others, are part of subasta number 34 by Lefebre Subastas.

The house of subastas opened its doors to the previous exhibition of works that will be finished, with a dedicated curation that celebrates the great names of national art and a group of international jewelry.

It will be an event that pays homage to the talent, identity and expressive strength of contemporary art in the facilities of the Gun Club in Bogotá, within the framework of a night that will bring together collectors, artists, critics and art lovers.

It is a subasta that stands out for its curatorial strength and the quality of the pieces that make it up. Among the most relevant works are iconic pieces by Carlos Rojas, including his renowned series Horizontes and Dorado, which embodies the perfect synthesis between abstraction, geometry and emotional landscape.

Also outstanding in this edition are works by Carlos Jacanamijoy and Edelmira Böller, fundamental figures in the consolidation of unique aesthetic languages.

In this sub-basis you will also find significant works by maestros such as: Omar Rayo, Edgar Negret, Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar and Manuel Hernández, whose plastic explorations remain indelible in the history of modern Latin American art.

A special chapter will include the participation of Ana Mercedes Hoyos, with an exceptional presence in this edition that encompasses different stages and mediums: from oils on linen, drawings on paper, to bronze sculptures that highlight the breadth and richness of her visual language.

Several works by maestro Alejandro Obregón are part of an exhibition within the catalog with works belonging to the private collection of Josefina Delvalle.

If most of these pieces will be exhibited with curatorial fines, four of them will be available online, offering an exclusive opportunity to acquire work by one of the most representative artists of Colombian painting from the 20th century.

Among the most outstanding parts of the Subasta 34 outstanding works, due to their symbolic power, their technical complexity and their deep connection with the territory, these are two guajira blankets created by Olga de Amaral, one of the most important artists of contemporary textile art at a global level.

These blankets belong to a key stage in De Amaral's career, in which, from the 1970s onwards, he explored the integration of gold, mineral pigments and natural fibers to build surfaces that oscillate between painting, sculpture and fabric.
During this period, the artist immersed herself in a formal and spiritual investigation into ancestral symbols, pre-Colombian materials and indigenous cosmogonies, achieving a work of unique richness.

The guajira blankets that are present in this subsoil on the ground allude to the textile tradition of the Wayúu pueblo, with its deep ancestral knowledge, sacred geometry and connection with the earth, which is also reinterpreted from the conceptual viewpoint of the artist. Each hilum, each layer or pigment, converts these pieces into suspended territories of history, beauty and reflection.

In the current context of collecting, these blankets are highly codified for their rareness, their historical value and the international consolidation of the legacy of Olga de Amaral, whose work has been the subject of important retrospectives in museums such as the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and the MoMA in New York.

Finally, works by Beatriz González, art as a mirror of a country, within the context of the well-deserved national and international honors she has received in recent years.

This edition will also include an automatic mask in reality, a deeply intimate and conceptual piece, where the artist literally puts her face into play as a gesture of reflection on identity, time and memory. Accompanying this work is a book on paper from the work ‘Las Delicias’, one of the key referents in its visual and critical narrative about the sociopolitical history of the country.

González, whose legacy has recently been exalted by institutions such as the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Pérez Art Museum in Miami and the Museo de Arte Moderno in Bogotá, represents a lucid and deeply humanist voice. His work has been central to understanding how art can be at the same time testimonial, irony, denunciation and poetry.

These two pieces on the ground offer collectors the possibility of acquiring work by one of the most important artists of our time, which also constitutes a valuable document about González's visual thinking, at a moment in his career where his figure is consolidated as Colombia's living cultural heritage.

"This subasta is an opportunity to connect with the creative spirit of Colombia through its greatest exponents. It is an invitation to collect history, to value our nuestro and to project, from art, a country of creation and memory", mentions Catalina Martínez, director of Lefebre Subastas.

Along with works by great names of Colombian art is a lot by the Spanish artist Pablo Piccaso, 'Bacanal', a 1950 lithograph in good condition with slight flaws on the paper and a retail price of $50,000,000.
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