Carlos Alfonzo (1950-1991), Water Seeds

Carlos Alfonzo (1950-1991)
Water Seeds
signed 'ALFONZO' (right panel, lower right), also signed, titled and dated 'ALFONZO, WATER SEEDS, 1988-89' (center and right panels, on the reverse)
oil on canvas
56 3/8 x 80 7/8 in. (143.2 x 205.4 cm.) each panel, 56 3/8 x 242 5/8 in. (143.2 x 616.3 cm.) overall
Painted in 1988-89.
Triptych.

Pre-Lot Text
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Post Lot Text
1 Carlos Alfonzo, quoted in The Art of Miami, exh. cat. (Winston-Salem: Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, 1985), n.p.
2 Giulio V. Blanc, “The Enigmatic Carlos Alfonzo: Beyond the ‘New Hispanic Art,’” Arts Magazine 64 (October 1989): 14.
3 Alfonzo, quoted in César Trasobares, “Public Voices and Private Transcendence,” in Carlos Alfonzo: Triumph of the Spirit, A Survey, 1975-1991, ed. Olga Viso, exh. cat. (Miami: Miami Art Museum of Dade County, 1997), 140-41.
4 Blanc, “Excerpts from Notes and Essays on Carlos Alfonzo,” in Carlos Alfonzo, 60.
5 Alfonzo, quoted in Juan Espinosa Almodóvar, “Conversation with Alfonzo,” Art Nexus no. 4 (April-June 1992): 213.
6 Alfonzo, quoted in Julia P. Herzberg, “Conversations with Carlos Alfonzo,” in Carlos Alfonzo, 129.