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LUIS NEMESIO ANTÚNEZ ZAÑARTU (Santiago, 4 May 1918-ibidem, 19 May 1993), "Bedroom in Manhattan II", 1978. Oil on canvas. It has slight overpaints on the pictorial surface. With export stamp of the Directorate of Libraries and Museums of Santiago de Chile and Vicente Piera (Barcelona). Signed in the lower right corner. Signed, dated and located on the back. Provenance: private collection conceived since the 1970s between London and Madrid. Measurements: 130 x 89 cm. Nemesio Antúnez and Luisa Zañartu, was the eldest of three children, all of them dedicated to art. He attended high school at the Colegio de los Sagrados Corazones in Santiago. At the age of 17 he won first place in a French-speaking competition and won a trip to France, where he met Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris and Joan Miró. In 1938 he entered the school of architecture at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, where he graduated in 1941. At the age of 25 he presented his first solo watercolour exhibition at the Instituto de Cultura de Chile. Thanks to a Fulbright scholarship, he travelled to Columbia University in New York. After completing his master's degree in 1947, he began working in the Atelier 17 studio with Stanley William Hayter, who applied printmaking techniques to surrealist art. He worked with his brother Enrique to explore the possibilities of the old printmaking techniques of artists such as Yves Tanguy, Kurt Seligmann, Jacques Lipchitz and Joan Miró. In 1950, the French branch of Atelier 17 moved.