Miquel Barceló, a still life from his Parisian period
Just before traveling to Mali for the first time, while living in Paris in 1985, the Mallorcan artist made a series of still lifes (among them, the one that Setdart is putting up for auction on this occasion), where his willingness to get rid of the motley is appreciated. chromatic and formal from its previous stage, foreshadowing the thirst for the desert (physical and metaphysical) that it will satisfy in the African country. In this still life belonging to the Parisian period (lot 35118235), the monochrome predominance of ocher and earthy tones seem to presage the direct irruption of mud and river sediments on the canvas with which he will experiment in Mali.
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