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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 2, 2022 | Morton Casa de Subastas | Mexico City | Subasta de Arte Latinoamericano | Latin American Art Auction | 171 | $****** - ****** | Dürer Pillow No. LXXVII |
Works on Paper
26.6 x 34.3 cm (10.47 x 13.5 in)
Watercolor and graphite on silver on gelatin with potassium ferrocyanide and toner on fiber paper
Signed twice
FRANCISCO TOLEDO
(Juchitán, Oaxaca, 1940 - Oaxaca, Oaxaca, 2019)
Dürer Pillow No. LXXVII, ca. 2000
Signed twice
Watercolor and graphite on silver on gelatin with potassium ferrocyanide and toner on fiber paper
With certificate of authenticity from Galería Juan Martín, June 2021.
In 2000, Francisco Toledo presented the exhibition "The Shadow of Desire" at the Juan Martín Gallery, which was a tribute to Albrecht Dürer and his unique engravings "Sechs Kissen (Six Pillows)", a series made in 1492 in which human faces are suggested from pillows.
Through a photographic manipulation of the pieces, the Oaxacan artist turned, folded and unfolded the fearsome faces expressed in each pillow, just as the Florentine mannerists of the 16th century produced the masks, and he intervened that photographic paper with chemicals, inks, graphite, watercolors and textiles to deform and condense the faces in various phases, but the faces that Toledo himself handles in his Juchiteco artistic language.
"Dürer interested me even more when I saw that he hid many faces in the pillows. Then I ordered some photo-engraved plates to be made and when observing the positive and negative proofs on top of each other, I found more figures between the folds. In fact, my objective is that the spectator can appreciate it through a kaleidoscope to see the many images created by the superposition of the pillows and thus each one finds his own characters." Francisco Toledo.
Sources consulted: MORENO VILLARREAL, Jaime. "Francisco Toledo". Mexico. Letras Libres magazine, October 2000, pp. 96-97 and MAC MASTERS, Merry. "Dürer"s pillows, a source of inspiration for Toledo". Mexico. La Jornada, October 4, 2000.
26.6 x 34.3 cm
