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For sale this amazing sculpture by master Colombian artist Edar Negret. Dimensions 28cm wide x 28cm high x 17cm deep. Negret was born in Popayˆn, Colombia. He attended the School of Fine Arts in Cali, Colombia. Initially working in stone in styles reminiscent of European modernists like Jean Arp and Constantin BrŠncu_i.[3][4] By the early 1950s, he began working in metal in constructivist tradition. In 1955, his art was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art.[5] In 1963, he won the Sal„n de Artistas Colombianos, and therein became one of the most prominent Colombian sculptors of the 20th century. In 1968, he was awarded the David E. Bright Sculpture Prize, at the Thirty-fourth Venice Biennial. In 1985, the Museum Negret opened.[6] In 2010, he was awarded –Grado de Oficial” by order of the Congress of Colombia.[7] Negret died, on his 92nd birthday, in Bogotˆ, Colombia.