Lot 78: Rocío Maldonado (Mexican b. 1951)

Rocío Maldonado (Mexican b. 1951)
Las dos hermanas, Virgen de Barro
signed and dated 'Maldonado 1986' (center right)
acrylic and collage on canvas
71½ x 55 7/8 (170 x 145 cm)
Painted in 1986.

Monterrey, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Mito y magia en América: Los ochenta, June- September 1991, no. 222.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century, 6 June- 7 September 1993, no. 92.628.

L.C. Emerich, Figuraciones y desfiguros de los 80: Pintura mexicana joven, Mexico City, Editorial Diana, 1989, no. 59 (illustrated).
Exhibition catalogue, Mito y magia en América: Los ochenta, Monterrey, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, 1991, p. 270, no. 222 (illustrated in color).
Teresa Eckmann, Neo-Mexicanism: Figurative Painting and Patronage in the 1980s, Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 2010, p. 44, no. 19 (illustrated in color).

Galería OMR, Mexico City.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Rocío Maldonado (Mexican b. 1951)
Las dos hermanas, Virgen de Barro
signed and dated 'Maldonado 1986' (center right)
acrylic and collage on canvas
71½ x 55 7/8 (170 x 145 cm)
Painted in 1986.