From Botero to Picasso, 120 works of art will be auctioned in Bogotá

120 works of Colombian and Ibero-American art, between modern and contemporary, will be part of the new Bogotá Auctions auction next Thursday, May 30.

120 works of Colombian and Ibero-American art, between modern and contemporary, will be part of the new auction by Bogotá Auctions, an auction house that is celebrating its ten years of work.
The auction will be held next Thursday, May 30, with pieces that can be seen, free of charge, at the auction house facilities (Calle 70 # 10 A – 59) and at https://www.bogotaauctions.com/ is.

The catalog takes up the traditional format of auctions: a selection of pieces based on a high level of quality and historical-artistic criteria. On this occasion, the complex stands out for the presence of a high number of pieces of great historical value, belonging to different periods.

Works by Fernando Botero, Beatriz González, Alejandro Obregón, Pablo Picasso, Luis Caballero, Joan Miró, Maripaz Jaramillo, Antonio Caro, Ana Mercedes Hoyos, Édgar Negret, Juan Antonio Roda, Nadín Ospina, Leo Matiz, Omar Rayo and Ignacio Gómez Jaramillo, Pedro Alcántara Herrán, Ricardo Gómez Campuzano, Leopoldo Richter, Freda Sargent, Bernardo Salcedo, Hugo Zapata, among other great artists.
According to Alessandro Armato, expert director of the Art Department of Bogotá Auctions, “the landscape section, a genre through which modern art entered Colombia, includes pieces from different periods and styles: from the most traditional landscaping by artists such as Jesús María Zamora and Ricardo Gómez Campuzano, to the sophisticated 'modernist' landscapes of Marco Ospina and Antonio Barrera."

He maintained that “the generation of nationalist artists active in the first half of the last century is represented by a beautiful watercolor with Cezannian resonances by Carlos Correa, dated between 1940 and 1950, two works by Pedro Nel Gómez (a basket of mangoes and a large canvas with a native theme) and three works, two with a popular subject and one with a neopre-Hispanic theme, by Luis Alberto Acuña.”
“To art with a nationalist mood, one can also associate a sumptuous female nude on a landscape background by Ignacio Gómez Jaramillo and the synthetic ‘Pensador’ by Jorge Elías Triana,” he argued.

Among the generation of the great masters of Colombian modernism, Enrique Grau's 'Bound Christ' stands out, an important work from the artist's formative period. Alejandro Obregón said of this piece that it has “extraordinary vigor” and that it is “a noble painting due to its direct interpretation and the plasticity of its values.”
Very rare on the market and of charming beauty is an African American woman painted in oil by Guillermo Wiedemann in 1955. Due to the elegance of the line and constructive and pictorial values, the piece reflects the best results achieved by the German artist in his original plastic interpretation. of the Colombian tropics.

Charlotte Pieri, general director of Bogotá Auctions highlighted “a study by Fernando Botero entitled 'Homage to Mantegna', which must be put in relation to the homonymous canvas, now lost, with which the artist won the 10th National Salon of Artists in 1958 ”.

“The section also includes an iconic head on paper by Enrique Grau from 1960 and a striking acrylic on panel by Alejandro Obregón that in a few square centimeters concentrates all the dynamism, the fiery lyricism of color and the compositional wisdom that characterizes this painting. artist,” he explained.
“To this group of works,” he explained, “we can also associate a large abstractionist canvas from the seventies by the Peruvian artist Fernando de Szyszlo, who, along with Alejandro Obregón and a few other artists, was one of the great innovators of Latin American plastic art after the Second World War".

The notable generation of masters that emerged around the mid-70s around the Museum of Modern Art of Bogotá, then directed by Marta Traba, is represented by some pieces of absolute value.

“'Encajera-ave' by Beatriz González stands out, the work with the highest starting price of the entire auction ($250 million). Made in 1964 and exhibited that same year at the Museum of Modern Art in Bogotá, this large abstract painting (100 x 70 cm) is inspired by a work by Vermeer and bears witness to a period in which the artist studied how to appropriate, in a personal way, from works by great masters of the past,” said Armato.