ARMANDO MORALES Traspatio de Nuestra Casa en Managua.
Oil on canvas, 1966. 180x280 mm; 7x11 inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower right recto, and titled and inscribed in oil, verso.
Provenance: Private collection, Managua; private collection, New York.
Morales (1927-2011) is among the most significant Nicaraguan painters of the twentieth century. He studied at the School of Fine Arts of Managua with Augusto Fernandez, the German Rechmitzy, and Rodrigo Penalba. In 1956, he won his first award in the Central American Painting Contest for the painting Spook-Tree, which was later purchased by The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Beginning in 1959, he participated in several international exhibitions in the Americas and Europe, where he received several awards. He moved to New York where he was introduced and influenced by abstraction through the New York School of Abstract Expressionists. Around 1966, he shifted back towards figurative works painting tropical landscapes inspired by his home country. He moved to Paris in 1982 and met Claude Bernard who represented him through his eponymous gallery from 1984-2000.
