Lot 532: Manuel Maren, Spanish 1942-2007- Untitled;

Manuel Maren, Spanish 1942-2007- Untitled; polychrome painted metal sculpture/mobile, 186cm., (high) (may be subject to Droit de Suite) Note: Manuel Marin was born in 1942 in Cieza, Murcia, Spain. In 1962 he travelled to London meeting Henry Moore and worked as one of his assistants. In 1964 he moved to New York where he worked as an Art restorer in the Mallorca Brothers Gallery. Subsequently, he opened the American Indian Art Gallery, where one of his clients was Andy Warhol and became friendly with the artists William Kooning, Jean Michel Basquiat, Robert Indiana, and Haring Keltan, amongst others. In 1969 Marin became interested in mobiles as sculpture. He had his first exhibition at the Allan Brown Gallery, Scarsdale, New York in 1970.