$260
Emilio Sanchez pencil and watercolor on paper depicting a Caribbean street scene; signed to bottom right corner; measures approximately 18" x 22" with wooden frame and has a sight image of approximately 10-1/2" x 14-1/2".Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999) was a Cuban-born American artist known for his architectural paintings and graphic lithographs. His work is found in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Museo de Arte Moderno Bogotá, La Tertulia Museum, and the National Gallery of Australia. A representational artist with a modernist and at times abstract approach, Sanchez emphasized "pattern, color and strong lighting contrasts". By 1970 architectural themes, from detailed stained glass windows to abstracted storefronts or city skylines, dominated his oeuvre. Carol Damian of the Frost Art Museum (Miami FL) described his work as studies in "horizontals and verticals, bold stripes of color, and the ever-present shadows, especially diagonal shadows that he so favored, with darks and lights in repetition." For her, Sanchez's work was "not a picture of something, but the application of pigment onto a flat surface to become a singular object to its own definition." He attended Yale University and, from 1941-1943, the University of Virginia. Although Sanchez increasingly experienced vision problems, he continued to paint until his death in War
Auctioneer:
Bremoauctions
Date:
2015-10-24
