Two oil paintings by José María Velasco repatriated from the United States stand out in the auction “Territory and presence. Landscape and portrait in brushes from two continents”, which has 330 lots that will go to auction on April 25.
Sofía Hernández, manager of the Antiquities Department at Morton Subastas, reported that the auction also includes works by Salvador Murillo, Manuel Serrano, and Edouard Pingret.
Among the works, Velasco’s oil paintings, “come from a private collector who bought them at Sotheby’s in New York, and returned them to Mexico to be auctioned here. We know that these works have been in the U.S. for more than two years,” said Sofía Hernández.
“Velasco’s pieces are two landscapes. One that shows the lush green thicknesses of the Chapultepec Forest with the castle perched on the top of the hill and the second is of the sunny and semi-arid plains of the Valley of Mexico captured from the top of Tepeyac in 1890.”
Both Velasco Landscapes will start with a bid of two million pesos, rising to three million 400 thousand pesos, with the possibility of reaching 10 million pesos.
Sofía Hernández, manager of the Antiquities Department at Morton Subastas added that there is a reference that the landscaper has a work of just over 250 certified pieces and of these, around 190 are protected and exhibited by the National Museum of Art (MUNAL).
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