Art + Design 
23 September 2014
Art + Design 
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Jesús Rafael Soto 1923–2005

Escritura (from the Serie Sintesis)

1978
screenprint on Plexiglas with metal rods 11¾ h × 27½ w × 5½ d in (30 × 70 × 14 cm)
estimate: $7,000–9,000
result: $22,860
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Signed and numbered on applied label to verso 'Soto 19/110'. This work is number 19 from the edition of 110 published by Editions Denise René, Paris.

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Jesús Rafael Soto 1923–2005

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Jesús Rafael Soto was a Venezuelan sculptor and painter whose optical art blurred the lines between reality and illusion. He received a scholarship to attend the Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Artes Aplicadas in Caracas from 1942 to 1947 where he met fellow students Carlos Cruz-Diez and Omar Carreño. He then served as the director of the Escuela de Bellas Artes in Maracaibo, Venezuela until 1950. The same year he moved to Paris and became associated with the New Realists, later his work was exhibited at the Galerie Denise René in the groundbreaking exhibition “Le Mouvement” alongside works by kinetic artists including Yaacov Agam, Alexander Calder, Marcel Duchamp, Jean Tinguely, and Victor Vasarely.

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