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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 16, 2023 | Morton Casa de Subastas | Mexico City | Subasta de Arte Latinoamericano | 172 | $****** - ****** | Woman with glass |
paintings
85 x 115 cm (33.46 x 45.28 in)
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated 11 / 71
RICARDO MARTÍNEZ
(Mexico City, 1918 - Mexico City, 2009)
Woman with glass
Signed and dated 11 / 71
Oil on canvas
With digital certificate of authenticity from the Ricardo Martínez Foundation.
We thank the Ricardo Martínez de Hoyos Foundation A.C. for verifying the authenticity of this work, September 2023.
This work will be registered in the catalog raisonné of Dr. Mark Ruben with no. RM-71022.
Ricardo Martínez created his own world using fantasies that lived in his mind and that came to life in the large colorful canvases that make up his work.
He was a solitary and silent artist. He was inspired by literature, music, contemplation, nature and the human body to make his painting a poetic anthology of color and shapes.
With his personal and self-taught style, he captured universes where goodness and violence, maternal love and an overflowing sensual gaze, light and darkness coexist. His works are a mirror of the human landscape, of a dreamed reality, of an existential abyss always in motion.
The predilection for symbols, the recurrence to a synthetic iconography and the reduction and deep contrasts in the chromatic palette persisted. Contrary to Rufino Tamayo, who used light as the main resource for his production, Ricardo Martínez was a painter of shadows, undoubtedly inheriting Tamayo"s vision but creating his own style.
"Ricardo Martínez"s art lies in his search for space: in sensitively combining light and color to arouse vibrations that take the plastic surface towards a warm and deep atmosphere that envelops us in its already achieved extraordinary spatiality." Fernando Gamboa.
Source consulted: BARREDA, Octavio. Atmospheres. Ricardo Martínez. Mexico. 12th Century Editors - CONACULTA - INBA -, 2007, pp. 15-24.
85 x 115 cm
