ira-monte-spanish-b-1918-birds-in-paradise
Lot 77
Ira Monte (Spanish, b. 1918), Birds in Paradise
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Oil on canvas, signed at lower right, presented in a gilt frame.

DOA 39.5 x 49.25 in.

Private Collection, Bermuda Run, North Carolina

Ira Monte studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Barcelona (1937-1941) and the Academia de Bellas Artes in Madrid (1954). From 1960 until 1965 he worked as a conservator at the Sevilla Museum. He exhibited often during his lifetime and maintained studios in Barcelona and Rome.

Yellowing varnish; stable craquelure.