Luis Jiménez, Old Woman with Cat, 1969
Luis Jiménez
1940 - 2006
Old Woman with Cat, 1969
fiberglass, edition 4 of 5
inscribed: L. JIMENEZ / 69 / 4/5 Luis Jimenez
each work in the edition was executed in a different color, including blue/teal, green, and this example in black.
40 x 31 x 31 in. (101.6 x 78.7 x 78.7 cm.)
Private Collection
Literature:
Man on Fire: Luis Jimenez - El hombre en Ilamas, Albuquerque, NM: The Albuquerque Museum, 1994, pl. 11
"The Old Woman with Cat is a portrait of my grandmother who lived to be 101. I picked up an old green overstuffed chair out in the street that I used to sit in when I was working in the studio. I kept looking at that chair and one day I said, 'I could make a sculpture out of that.' So I made a sculpture around my old green chair - just stuck clay on it. By the time my grandmother died, she couldn't see very well, even though she used to sew, and she'd become fairly immobile. So it was really a kind of statement about what happened with old people. My grandmother had never had a cat. Why I put the cat in there I don't know. My feeling is that it was an intuitive move just to accentuate the fact that she was immobile. Somehow she is totally symmetrical and immobile-looking, but the cat isn't."
-Man on Fire: Luis Jimenez, The Albuquerque Museum, 1994, p. 63
Luis Jiménez was a Mexican-American/Chicano sculptor best known for large, polychromed fiberglass public works featuring bold, neon-slick surfaces learned in his father’s El Paso sign shop, fused with themes from Southwestern life and Mexican muralism. Trained at the University of Texas, he later taught at the University of Arizona and the University of Houston. Signature works include Border Crossing / Cruzando el Río Bravo (1989), the agrarian monument Sodbuster, San Isidro (1982–83), and Denver International Airport’s Mustang (installed 2008). His art appears in major museum collections and surveys.
Condition
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Luis Jiménez
1940 - 2006
Old Woman with Cat, 1969
fiberglass, edition 4 of 5
inscribed: L. JIMENEZ / 69 / 4/5 Luis Jimenez
each work in the edition was executed in a different color, including blue/teal, green, and this example in black.
40 x 31 x 31 in. (101.6 x 78.7 x 78.7 cm.)
Private Collection
Literature:
Man on Fire: Luis Jimenez - El hombre en Ilamas, Albuquerque, NM: The Albuquerque Museum, 1994, pl. 11
"The Old Woman with Cat is a portrait of my grandmother who lived to be 101. I picked up an old green overstuffed chair out in the street that I used to sit in when I was working in the studio. I kept looking at that chair and one day I said, 'I could make a sculpture out of that.' So I made a sculpture around my old green chair - just stuck clay on it. By the time my grandmother died, she couldn't see very well, even though she used to sew, and she'd become fairly immobile. So it was really a kind of statement about what happened with old people. My grandmother had never had a cat. Why I put the cat in there I don't know. My feeling is that it was an intuitive move just to accentuate the fact that she was immobile. Somehow she is totally symmetrical and immobile-looking, but the cat isn't."
-Man on Fire: Luis Jimenez, The Albuquerque Museum, 1994, p. 63
Luis Jiménez was a Mexican-American/Chicano sculptor best known for large, polychromed fiberglass public works featuring bold, neon-slick surfaces learned in his father’s El Paso sign shop, fused with themes from Southwestern life and Mexican muralism. Trained at the University of Texas, he later taught at the University of Arizona and the University of Houston. Signature works include Border Crossing / Cruzando el Río Bravo (1989), the agrarian monument Sodbuster, San Isidro (1982–83), and Denver International Airport’s Mustang (installed 2008). His art appears in major museum collections and surveys.
Condition
A condition report for this lot is available upon request (please include the lot number in your request) and is provided by Santa Fe Art Auction as a courtesy and convenience for potential buyers.
