Gouache on paper laid on board, 1956, signed and inscribed at lower right, matted and framed under glass.

Sight size 18 3/4 x 24 1/4 in.; Frame dimensions 28 3/4 x 33 1/2 in.

From the Estate of the Late Helena Simkhovitch, New York and Washington, D.C.

Born in Colombia, Eduard Ramírez Villamizar spent a significant amount of time in Paris in the early to mid-1950s. Here he abandoned the figural and expressive style of his early work to develop the abstract and planar style that would characterize his mature oeuvre.

The present work dates to 1956, the same year as his one-person show at the Pan American Union in Washington, D.C. The Museum of Modern Art in New York has a gouache on paper from this same year in their collection. In 2022, The Modern Art Museum of Bogota mounted an exhibition, Colección en Escena 04: Ramírez antes de Villamizar, with the aim of exhibiting the artist's earliest work from this formative period.

The sheet is affixed to the backing with an unknown adhesive, the mat board is affixed to the backing and likely to the edges of the sheet with an unknown adhesive; toning and mat burn to sheet; small tear in lower right corner of sheet; several surface abrasions to sheet, some scratches through black gouache.