Guillermo Kuitca - New Now New York Wednesday, March 8, 2023 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Courtesy of the Artist and Hauser & Wirth
    The Walker Art Center Avant Garden Art Auction, November 19, 2016
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

  • Artist Biography

    Guillermo Kuitca

    Argentinian • 1961

    Guillermo Kuitca is an Argentinean child prodigy who held his first solo exhibition at age thirteen. He emerged as a painter during the 1980s, rejecting the neoexpressionist trend of the time. Yet his art is intellectually demanding, formally complex and relevant to the historical moment.

    Kuitca is influenced by Antoni Tápies, Francis Bacon, Jenny Holzer and Pina Bausch. His paintings denote total abstraction and deal with space, language, deat, and travel. His series of maps from the 1990s depicted on canvases and mattresses explore themes of disappearance, migration and the importance of memory. He rarely depicts humans, and his map paintings are difficult to decipher geographically, allowing viewers to meditate on the psychology of space.

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Property from an Important Private American Collection

252

Untitled

signed and dated "Kuitca 2011" on the reverse
oil on plywood
18 1/4 x 25 5/8 in. (46.4 x 65.1 cm)
Executed in 2011.

Estimate
$12,000 - 18,000 

Sold for $20,320

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Avery Semjen
Head of Sale, New Now
212 940 1207
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New Now

New York Auction 8 March 2023