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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apr 20, 2023 | Morton Casa de Subastas | Mexico City | Subasta de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo | 96 | $****** - ****** | Durer"s Pillows XLI |
Works on Paper
50 x 39.5 cm (19.69 x 15.55 in)
Watercolor and graphite on silver on gelatin with potassium ferrocyanide and toner on fiber paper
Signed
FRANCISCO TOLEDO
(Juchitán, Oaxaca, 1940 - Oaxaca, Oaxaca, 2019)
Durer"s Pillows XLI, 2000
Signed
Watercolor and graphite on silver on gelatin with potassium ferrocyanide and toner on fiber paper
Origin: Nakatani Gallery.
It has slight conservation details.
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 Francisco Toledo himself handled in his Juchiteco artistic language.
Source consulted: MACMASTERS, Merry. "Dürer"s pillows, source of inspiration for Toledo". Mexico. La Jornada, October 4, 2000.
50 x 39.5 cm
