- Artist
- Manolo Millares 1926–1972
- Original title
- Cuadro 150
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 1308 × 1622 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1963
- Reference
- T00579
Catalogue entry
Manolo Millares 1926-1972
T00579 Painting 150
1961
Inscribed 'MILLARES' t.l. and 'MILLARES-CUADRO 150 (1961)' along top of stretcher, 'BASE' on bottom of stretcher
Oil on canvas, 51 1/2 x 63 3/4 (131 x 162)
Purchased from Arthur Tooth and Sons (Grant-in-Aid) 1963
Prov:
With Arthur Tooth and Sons, London (purchased from the artist through the Galeria Biosca, Madrid)
Exh:
La Nueva Pintura de España II, Arthur Tooth and Sons, London, January-February 1962 (20)
Repr:
Il Contemporaneo, Nos.38-9, July-August 1961, facing p.209 as 'El Enano' (The Dwarf); Aujourd'hui, No.35, February 1962, p.48
Millares wrote on 6 March 1964 that this picture belongs to a series of paintings in black and white. This series was begun in 1956-7 and came to an end in 1963, though he continued to use austere colours (black, white, red, pink ...). Within this series was a further one which he called 'Homunculos', i.e. man in a primitive state. The first work of the 'Homunculos' type dated from 1958. All his paintings since 1957 had included some reference to human forms, always beginning with the organic and 'living' drama of man, the drama of his own country with all its political and social problems. The picture owned by the Tate was more figurative than most and therefore close to the 'Homunculos' theme.
Published in:
Ronald Alley, Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, p.516, reproduced p.516
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