Oil on paper , laminated onto canvas. Signed in the lower right corner. 73.3 x 54.1 cm. . [KA].

• A powerful portrait by the renowned Expressionist master Antoni Clavé.
• An early work from the famous series of royal portraits, to which Clavé devoted himself intensively in the 1950s and 1960s.
• Created at the height of his artistic career: In 1956, Clavé received an award at the 28th Venice Biennale; in 1959, he participated in documenta II.
• In 1978, the Musée d’Art moderne at the Centre Pompidou in Paris dedicated a comprehensive retrospective to him.
This work will be included in the Antoni Clavé Archive under the number “57HPMT6”.
LITERATURE: Sotheby’s, London, auction LN8762, Contemporary Art Part II, Dec. 10, 1998, lot 139 (with color illustration).

Galerie Urban, Paris (with the gallery label on the reverse). Galeria Marc Domènech, Barcelona. Private collection, USA (acquired from the above in 2015)

In good condition. Isolated micro-paint flaking in two areas at the top of the painting. Here and there, isolated tiny to small superficial areas of craquelure, in the middle section of the painting, there is also craquelure with minimal irregularities in the canvas. Isolated small brown spots. The condition report was compiled in daylight with the aid of a UV light source, and to the best of our knowledge and belief.