Carlos Méndez (1943) - Arlequin III

The work is signed by the author at the bottom.

On the back, it is again signed and titled.

The painting is presented framed.

The painting is in good condition.

Dimensions of the work: 46 cm tall by 38 cm wide

Frame dimensions: 50 cm tall by 41.5 cm wide

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Artist biography:

Carlos Méndez trained in Buenos Aires, among groups of painters, and began his career by doing scenery for theater and ballet. In 1962 he began exhibiting his work, taking it to various Argentine cities, and from 1973 he would also show his work in Paris, Rome and Mexico. Subsequently, he studied printmaking in New York and San Francisco, and in 1976 he moved to Catalonia. There he exhibited in venues in Sant Cugat del Vallès and Barcelona. Later his painting would also be admired in Colombia, Uruguay, Israel, the United States, Venezuela and Germany.

His work initially stems from social realism, but after his arrival in Catalonia, his language evolved toward the informalism developed there from the 1960s onward. Since then his painting has been closely tied to magical realism. Thus, his work often features ambiguous dreamlike spaces, where spectral apparitions of strange characters with undefined faces are staged, treated with startling verisimilitude. Méndez uses a figuration inherited from the avant-garde of the early century, mixing formal distortion with the expressive force of the line, dark and strongly defined.

In his own words, it is a “realist abstraction,” with forms laid bare and focused on the human theme.

To date, Carlos Méndez has a résumé that spans almost a hundred exhibitions, and his work is distributed across public and private collections of great significance.