© Estate of Claudio Bravo
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Still Life with Bread Molds,
1972
Claudio Bravo, 1936–2011; born Valparaíso, Chile; died Taroudant, Morocco; active Madrid, Spain and Tangier, Morocco
x1972-41
While becoming a society portrait painter in Madrid in the 1960s, Bravo applied his illusionistic style to depictions of crumpled paper, paper-wrapped packages, and draped cloth. These became his principal focus when he moved permanently to Morocco in 1972. Drawn in that year, this enigmatic still life features a crumpled package surrounded by indigenous wooden domestic objects, including spindles and bread molds. Bravo’s heightened realist style derived inspiration from various sources, including seventeenth-century Spanish artists like Diego Velázquez and Francisco de Zurbarán.
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Title
Still Life with Bread Molds
Dates
1972
Maker
Medium
Black, red and white chalk
Dimensions
sight: 48.3 × 63.5 cm (19 × 25 in.)
frame: 64 × 79.2 × 3.2 cm (25 3/16 × 31 3/16 × 1 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Given in memory of George Kelleher, Class of 1972, by his friends
Object Number
x1972-41
Place Made
Africa, Morocco
Inscription
in red, lower left: Claudio Bravo
in red, lower right: MCMLXXII
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