Luis Caballero Holguín - Untitled (Deposition from the cross) - image-1

Lot 363 D

Luis Caballero Holguín - Untitled (Deposition from the cross)

Auction 1099 - overview Cologne
01.12.2017, 18:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 8.000 € - 10.000 €
Result: 12.400 € (incl. premium)

Luis Caballero Holguín

Untitled (Deposition from the cross)
1983

Drawing in red chalk, washed, on laid paper, mounted on canvas 190.5 x 124.8 cm Framed. Signed and dated 'L Caballero 83' lower right. - In fine condition. Some small, optically unobtrusive moisture stains.

The large-scale and pictorially laid out drawing is typical of the Columbian artist and paraphrases the religiously connotated motif of the Descent from the Cross. Caballero, who died early, was educated under the influence of abstract and figural contemporary art in Paris during the 1960s. From 1969 onwards, he lived in Paris. Internationally traded for the most part in New York and Paris, Willem DeKooning and Francis Bacon are said to have been early influencing models of art.

Provenance

Galerie Lietzow, Berlin (transportation label from Berlin verso); private collection Hesse