Art Concept, MIAMI, November 29 to December 4, 2016 coinciding with Miami’s Art Basel fair week. The spectacular venue will be held in the heart of downtown Miami’s Museum and Arts District.The fair offers exhibitors an extraordinarily vetted fair artwork of the 20th and emerging artworks of the 21st century.

Art Concept 2016 program:
Collector Lecture Series
Mr. Falk is the founder of Rediscovered Masters (known as redM), which is both an illustrated biographical encyclopedia as well as a curatorial enterprise for presenting significant artists who have, for fascinating reasons, slipped through the cracks of art history. All artists are vetted by its Art Advisory Board. At Concept Fair, redM is presenting The Cuatrecasas Discovery.
This exhibition serves as a perfect example of the complexities surrounding proper valuation —particularly since this artist’s estate collection was buried for 40 years and is only now being unveiled for the first time at Art Concept Falk’s principles and common sense approach appeals to all levels art collecting. And it applies to young emerging artists to mid and late career to deceased.

Mr. Falk is a pioneer in the publishing of art auction indices and was the founding Editor-in- Chief of ArtNet in New York. Since 2000 he has been the U.S. Editor of Artprice.com. He is author and publisher of numerous art reference books, including the national award-winning three-volume biographical dictionary, Who Was Who in American Art. As an expert appraiser he is most noted for having valued the Andy Warhol estate collection as well as Nazi-looted art.

Escaping Spain with his family during the brutal Franco regime, Cuatrecasas grew up in the United States. He studied with Josef Albers at Yale in the 1950s, and became part of the Washington Color School. His works were shown at the museums of modern art in Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, and Barcelona, and in 1965 he enjoyed a solo exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. In 1966 he suddenly resettled in his native Spain, where he broke out with an entirely new brushless style and technique. His large, bold paintings of colorful dendritic patterns form a transcendental botany. But in his spiritual exploration he became reclusive and shunned galleries. In 1976 a series of tragedies ensued with heartbreak and self-destruction, and within a few years his collection remained buried in storage — until now.

Late in 1939 Martha Cuatrecasas quickly packed some clothing and with her children in tow fled war-wracked Madrid for the safety of Paris. A few years earlier the Germans had heavily bombed the city while Franco’s brutal fascist uprising continued to wage its reign of “White Terror,” murdering as many as 400,000 “leftists” Republicans. Picasso memorialized the tragic period with his iconic mural, Guernica. Gil was four years old; his brother Pedro three and sister, Teresa, five. Had they remained in Madrid they would surely have been arrested and killed. Martha’s husband, José — a famous botanist at the University — told them to flee quickly while he remained behind. Martha joined nearly a half million refugees who escaped to France.

Soon thereafter, José managed to leave Spain as a scientist in order to resume his high altitude expedition in the Andes mountain range of Colombia to collect plant specimens. But José feared for his family, correctly sensing that the Germans would soon occupy France. His wife and children were among the refugees who had been taken in by families in Paris. Thousands of Jews had already been fleeing Nazi Germany on passenger liners hoping that they would be accepted in Cuba or South America. José sailed the other way, retrieved his family, and returned to Bogotá, Colombia. By June, 1940, France had fallen. Afterwards, thousands of Spanish refugees in France were captured by the Nazis and sent to the concentration camps. In 1947, when Gil was twelve years old, the family relocated to the United States after José accepted a position at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. They settled in Bensenville, a small town just northwest of Chicago.

Discovering His Passion in Art:
From Harvard to Yale to the Washington Color School
Upon graduating from the local high school in 1953 Gil attended Harvard, at first intending to follow a career in medicine but then switching to the fine arts. Always sketching as a boy, his interest may have been triggered by courses in philosophy and a popular seminar on color theory taught by Professor Richard F. Brown. He was undoubtedly moved further by the 1955 Matisse exhibition at Harvard’s Busch-Reisinger Museum, as that master of color had died just the previous year.