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José Guerrero Listed Artist Original Watercolor 1950s
Description: Watercolor and pencil on paper, framed (no glass). Inscribed, signed and dated in ink lower right: "La Catedral Zacatecas. J. Guerrero 52".Provenance: Included in the Modern, Contemporary & Latin American Art Sale 6662 of Butterfields: Thursday, October 23, 1997 [Lot 05242].
Price Comparison: Comparable auction records from the artist:
Auction House: Dobiaschofsky Auktionen, Bern, 11/12/2008, Lot: 529.
Title: Hafenpartie mit Booten in Spanien; 21.46" x 26.77"; Watercolor and pencil/Paper; Signed.
Low Est.: $11,080 (FR13,000) High Est.: n/a; Hammer Price: $12,350 (FR14,500).
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Sale of Dobiaschofsky Auktionen: Friday, May 15, 2009 [Lot 00557]
José Guerrero; Title Ansicht des Thunersees mit Alpenkette; Medium gouache and pencil; Year of Work 1947; Size Height 15.4 in.; Width 19.3 in.; Signed, Inscribed.
Estimate 15,000 CHF (13,060 US$); Sold For 11,000 CHF (9,937 US$) HAMMER. Dimensions: Image: 13 3/4 x 9 3/4in. Frame: 22 x 16 1/2in. Weight: 1lb. 6oz. Condition: Attached to mat with tape along upper and lower edges verso. Slight darkening to paper throughout. Numerous pin-hole sized fox-marks scattered throughout image and margins. Very sight soiling to surface. Otherwise, very good condition overall. Artist's Biography:
Jose Guerrero (Spanish/American, 1914-1991). A painter of abstraction, Jose Guerrero was born in Granada, Spain but spent most of his career in New York City where he was an active easel painter and from 1962 to 1965 was a teacher at the New School of Social Research. From 1940 to 1944, he studied at the Escuela Superior Bellas Artes San Fernando in Madrid, Spain and then spent two years enrolled in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Among his exhibition venues were the Whitney Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Guggenheim Museum, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. [Source: ]
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