ALBERTI, Rafael Original Watercolor, Signed. n.p., c. 1950
13 ¾ x 9 7/8 (image size 9 7/8 x 6) original ink drawing with watercolor wash, signed by the great Spanish poet. Alberti had trained as an artist, and it was due only to a health problem requiring a mountain cure that would uproot him from his studies, that his poetic gift would emerge in his early twenties. The present image, which we date from the fifties, shows an abstracted woman with prominent cylindrical breasts in a landscape of refracted shapes, her hair streaming behind her. The overall impression is that the woman is a dancer surrounded by light emanating from a number of sources on a colorful abstract stage. Very good or better, effected on a strong stock of paper.
$US8500
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