![Claudio Bravo - White Package [1969]](http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5807/21166583381_77ce5e3531_o.jpg)
“I think that I was originally inspired to do these pictures after looking at some works by Antoni Tàpies, whom I greatly admired. He'd done paintings with string that resembled wrapped objects. Rothko's work was also instrumental, but in a more indirect way. Yes, there's some mystery in the wrapped packages, but what I really wanted to paint was the wrapping. I wanted to give a sense of trompe-l'œil tactility. I'm constantly realistic...even when I painted my few abstract pictures there was always a sense of geology about them...volcanoes, mountains, large landscapes were suggested."
[Sotheby’s, New York - Oil on canvas, 80.9 x 64.8 cm]