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Siesta

Artist Claudio Bravo (Chilean 1936–2011)

Date1976

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsOverall: 39-1/4 x 51-1/8 inches (99.8 x 130 cm), frame: 41-1/4 x 53-1/4 x 1-1/8 inches (104.8 x 135.1 x 3 cm)

Credit LineBequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer

Object number2019.37

ClassificationsPainting

Object NamePainting

DepartmentPermanent Collection

CultureSouth American

NationalityChilean

On View

Not on view

Century

Twentieth

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Signedbottom left: CLAVDIO BRAVO / MCMLXXVI

Exhibition HistoryAn Intimate Eye: Selections from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, Palmer Museum of Art, January 18–May 15, 2005 Paintings and Sculpture from Central Pennsylvania Collectors, Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, April 8–June 24, 1984 Claudio Bravo, Staempfli Gallery, New York, February 7–March 4, 1978Realism in Spain, Staempfli Gallery, New York, November 8–26, 1977ProvenanceCollection of James and Barbara Palmer, acquired in 1981 from Staempfli Gallery, New York Palmer Museum of Art, bequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer, 2019Published ReferencesJoyce Henri Robinson, ed., A Gift from the Heart: American Art from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013), 174 (ill., color). An Intimate Eye (University Park, PA: Palmer Museum of Art, 2005), 12 (no. 12). Paul Bowles, Francisco Calvo Serraller, and Edward J. Sullivan, Claudio Bravo, Paintings and Drawings (1964/2004) (New York: Rizzoli, 2005), 72 (ill., color), 456 (ill., no. 72) Edward J. Sullivan, Claudio Bravo (New York: Rizzoli, 1985), 53 (ill., color, detail), 54–55 Olga K. Preisner, Paintings and Sculpture from Central Pennsylvania Collectors (University Park, PA: Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, 1984), 9 (no. 48), 34 (ill., no. 48)