Sandú Darié - New Now New York Tuesday, September 28, 2021 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Esther Barroso Santana, Havana (acquired directly from the artist circa 1970s)
    Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2006

  • Artist Biography

    Sandú Darié

    Romanian / Cuban • 1906 - 1991

    Romanian-born artist Sandú Daríe was initially trained as a lawyer, but his exposure to the Romanian intelligentsia resulted in his choice of a painting career. After studies in Paris, Darié moved permanently to Havana in 1941. His works evince the basic tenets of Concrete art, a combination of planes, primary colors and form fused with geometric rigor stimulated by Piet Mondrian's Neoplasticism.

    His most innovative works include irregular-shaped canvases and structures with moving parts, connoting the principles of the Latin American MADÍ movement that wished to break from traditional painting and focus on the concrete and physical reality of art. Daríe was constantly preoccupied with space, light and color as well as with viewer participation in the motion, perspective and movement of his works.

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Estructura en el espacio

signed "DARIE" lower left; signed and dated "DARIE 1957" on the reverse
casein on wood
27 3/8 x 15 7/8 in. (69.5 x 40.3 cm)
Executed in 1957, this work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by Roberto Cobas Amate.

Estimate
$15,000 - 20,000 

Sold for $27,720

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New York Auction 28 September 2021