Edgar Negret (1920 - 2012) Aluminium painted red and black, Signed and dated under the wood base "Sol 1991" measures 43.25 x 43.25 x 39.5 x - 110 x 100 x 50 cm. This work is accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity issued by German Alvarado. Edgar Negret was born on October 11, 1920 in Popayán, son of General Rafael Negret Vivas and María Dueñas. He studied at the Escuela de Bellas Artes in Cali between 1938 and 1943. Initially he started with watercolors and pastels, but it did not take him long to learn that he would not develop his career in these techniques. In his last year he began to have contact and correspond with the Basque artist Jorge de Oteiza, whom he met in his hometown and with whom he used to talk and learn about modern sculpture, his return to New York, Negret has possibly the most important period in his artistic career, which is to begin using aluminum as a raw material. Thus, between modeling geometric shapes and giving them life through color, the artist’s characteristic style, which gave him the title of representative of modern Colombian sculpture, shines through.

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