Modern and Contemporary Art

11 JUNE 2018
Auction, 0258
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XAVIER BUENO

Estimate
€ 3.500 / 7.000
Price realized  Registration
XAVIER BUENO (Vera De Bidasoa 1915 - Fiesole 1979) Ritratto di fanciulla mixed media on canvas, cm 45x54 signed Xavier Bueno on the reverse signed Xavier Bueno on the reverse stamp of  n. 381 Saletta Montecatini 2000 executed in the ' 60   Provenance Private collection, Florence   Between 1959 and 1964, Xavier created the cycle of "children", suffering images and melancholy workssymbolic of a humiliated and oppressed humanity, which the artist presents at the review "España libre".Since then his research has increasingly deepened this guideline, proposing his owncharacteristic images of tender faces and unripe bodies of adolescents.