![Null Oswaldo VIGAS [Venezuelan] (1923-2014)
Iracunda, Furibonde, 1966
Oil on can…](https://cdn.drouot.com/d/image/lot?size=fullHD&path=97/149589/4952ce7154dec9daf818f41537438772)
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Oswaldo VIGAS [Venezuelan] (1923-2014) Iracunda, Furibonde, 1966 Oil on canvas. Signed lower left. Signed, dated, located and dedicated on the back: "Avec toutes les amitiés pour notre ami Gaston Diehl / VIGAS / Caracas 7/12/77". 100 x 80 cm Provenance : Gaston Diehl Collection. By descent. Exhibition: Gaston Diehl (1912-1999), Un homme, une empreinte, Venezuela Art Promotion, Fondation National des Arts Graphiques et Plastiques, Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild, Paris, December 24 - 31, 2000. Bibliography : Gaston Diehl, Oswaldo Vigas, Caracas, Éditions Armitano, 1993, no. 85, reproduced on p. 119. This work, dated 1966 on the back, was presented to Gaston Diehl as a gift and dedicated to him in 1977. Appointed director of the Institut Franco-Vénézuélien and cultural attaché in Caracas in 1950, Gaston Diehl helped artists such as Jesùs-Rafael Soto, Carlos Cruz-Diez and Oswaldo Vigas gain artistic recognition in Europe. He published a monograph on Vigas in 1993.
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Oswaldo VIGAS [Venezuelan] (1923-2014) Iracunda, Furibonde, 1966 Oil on canvas. Signed lower left. Signed, dated, located and dedicated on the back: "Avec toutes les amitiés pour notre ami Gaston Diehl / VIGAS / Caracas 7/12/77". 100 x 80 cm Provenance : Gaston Diehl Collection. By descent. Exhibition: Gaston Diehl (1912-1999), Un homme, une empreinte, Venezuela Art Promotion, Fondation National des Arts Graphiques et Plastiques, Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild, Paris, December 24 - 31, 2000. Bibliography : Gaston Diehl, Oswaldo Vigas, Caracas, Éditions Armitano, 1993, no. 85, reproduced on p. 119. This work, dated 1966 on the back, was presented to Gaston Diehl as a gift and dedicated to him in 1977. Appointed director of the Institut Franco-Vénézuélien and cultural attaché in Caracas in 1950, Gaston Diehl helped artists such as Jesùs-Rafael Soto, Carlos Cruz-Diez and Oswaldo Vigas gain artistic recognition in Europe. He published a monograph on Vigas in 1993.
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