Jaume Plensa
Portrait 3
Lot Closed
June 7, 03:38:00 AM GMT
Estimate
22,000 - 27,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Jaume Plensa
b. 1955
Portrait 3
Executed in 2022.
Pastel and wax pencil on handmade cotton paper
24 1/4 x 19 5/8 in. (61.6 × 49.8 cm)
Framed: 26 3/4 x 22 1/4 x 1 1/2 in. (67.9 x 56.5 x 3.8 cm)
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Courtesy of the artist and GRAY Chicago/New York
Jaume Plensa (b. 1955, Barcelona, Spain; lives in Barcelona) is a Catalonian sculptor well known for his large-scale public artworks, such as Plensa’s remarkable interactive public art project Crown Fountain (2004) in Chicago’s Millennium Park, as well as opera sets, video projections, and acoustic installations. Portrait 3 is an elegant exploration of portraiture, with Plensa using line and shadow to evoke a quiet intimacy. Selected solo exhibitions of Plensa’s work include presentations at Musée de Valence, France; Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Madrid; Beaux-Arts Mons, Belgium; Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba, Brazil; Musée Picasso, Antibes, France; Moscow Museum of Modern Art; and Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague, Netherlands, among others. Plensa has two sculptures in the MCA Collection.