This piece is accompanied by a certificate issued by Kingkong Art Projects confirming the authenticity of this lot

Provenance: Provenance: Madrid, Spain Private Collection, Manila

Exhibited: Exhibited: Luz Gallery, Chabet 2nd Solo Exhibition, Manila, 1964

ABOUT THE WORK

Blind Window (1964) is one of the few oil on canvas paintings by Filipino artist Roberto Chabet (1937 - 2013). More known for his conceptual installations, drawings and collages, Chabet also created minimalist and abstract paintings at the start of his career in the early 1960s. This work is part of series of paintings and drawings Chabet made between the years 1963 to 1966 that used the window as a subject, compositional device, and as metaphor. The particular shape of the image in the painting is based on the window of the Texas School Book Depository Building in Dallas, Texas, USA, from where Lee Harvey Oswald, shot and killed John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. The work was first exhibited as part of Chabet’s second solo exhibition held at the Luz Gallery in Manila in 1964. -Ringo Bunoan