Glexis Novoa - Latin America New York Thursday, November 21, 2013 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami
    Private Collection, Florida
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Catalogue Essay

    While in Mexico in the early 1990s, Novoa felt akin to Tomás Sánchez’s treatment of the landscape (though Sánchez’s trade is the country not the metropolis). Later, he fixed his attention on the often-ignored, detailed background renditions of the Flemish masters' paintings and engravings. Add to this Édouard Baldus' photos, Escher, and American pop– plus all architectural styles enamored with power – and you get an idea of Novoa’s influences... Drawing– not painting– these possible worlds is what interests Novoa, a perspective virtuoso who indulges in a practice considered second to painting and passed along (since the Renaissance) to the architecture profession. His pulse is careful and precise and his fantastic images are realistic and obtained in extremely small detail.
    Alfredo Triff, 2004

A SELECTION OF CUBAN CONTEMPORARY ART CUBA

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2002
graphite on travertine
24 x 47 7/8 in. (61 x 121.6 cm.)

Estimate
$10,000 - 15,000 

Sold for $10,000

Contact Specialist
Laura González
Head of Latin America Sale
lgonzalez@phillips.com
+ 1 212 940 1216

Latin America

New York 21 November 2013 4pm