Gouache on black wove paper. 421x610 mm; 16½x24 inches. Signed in gouache, lower right recto.
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by the Antoni Clavé Archives.
Provenance: Private collection, New York.
Clavé (1913-2005) was a Catalan master painter, printmaker, sculptor, stage designer and costume designer. Born in Barcelona, he received his formal art training at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona, later relocating to Paris as a refugee during the Spanish Civil War. Clavé became deeply involved in the avant-garde art scene in Paris where he befriended Pablo Picasso, among other vanguard artists at the time.
