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Modern | April 22, 2025

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From Modernists in Latin America, such as Omar Rayo and Manuel Felguerez, to representations of the early work of Thomas Downing, Gordon Onslow Ford, the Modern sale offers paintings, sculpture, and multiples from estates and fine collections. Other names to drop? Ernest Trova, Larry Rivers, Maud Gatewood, Nicolo Simbari, Werner Scholz, Tony Hernandez, Mary Whyte, and Mark Beard, Peter Roux, Bruce Brainard, Paul Vincent, important multiples by Jasper Johns, Calder, Chagall, and George Rodrigue, design by Edward Moulthrop, Georg Jensen, and George Nelson. If you love modern, enjoy this sale.
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Lot 76

Hernan Puelma Urzua, Figural Sculpture

Estimate: $400 - $600
Starting Bid
$200

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(Chilean, born 1944)

Mujer recostada (Woman Reclining), signed on base "H Puelma", aluminum, 17 x 35 x 12 in. 

Provenance: The Estate of Rita F. Rofe, Princeton, New Jersey

Note: Rita Rofe, a longtime Princeton, New Jersey educator and resident, and husband Nicolas Rofe began their art collection in the 1960s, selected during their travels in the early years of their marriage. Rita Rofe was multilingual and developed a keen appreciation for art from Latin America and elsewhere, and these are among their earliest group of artists now well established and sought after in the category of Latin American Modern Art.

This sculpture is two pieces, the figure is separated from the base. 

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The Estate of Rita F. Rofe, Princeton, New Jersey

both base and body with possibly intentional rough finish with casting anomalies, incomplete welds at seams, abrasions, cracks, areas of rubbing, accretion