Lot 57
  • 57

Gunther Gerzso (1915-2000)

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description

  • Gunther Gerzso
  • Ágora
  • signed and dated 74 lower right; also signed, titled and dated on the reverse
  • oil and sand on masonite
  • 28 3/4 by 36 1/4 in.
  • 73 by 92 cm

Provenance

Private Collection, Mexico
Sale: Sotheby's, New York, Latin American Art, June 3, 1999, lot 63, illustrated in color
Private Collection, Mexico
Sale: Nader's Fine Art Auctions, Miami, Important Paintings and Sculpture, December 6, 2012, lot 31, illustrated in color
Private Collection, Miami

Exhibited

Austin, The University of Texas at Austin Michener Galleries, Gunther Gerzso: Paintings and Graphics Reviewed, April 4-May 23, 1976, p. 43, illustrated 
Mexico City, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Museo de Arte Moderno, 60 obras del gran pintor Gunther Gerzso, September-October, 1977, no. 28
Mexico City, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Museo de Arte Moderno, Gunther Gerzso, Carlos Mérida, Rufino Tamayo, April 1978, no. 11, p. 47, illustrated in color
Naples, Castel dell'Ovo, Passione per la Vita, la Rivoluzione dell'arte Messicana nel XX Secolo, March 15-June 15, 1997, no. 82, p. 137, p. 221, illustrated in color (incorrectly illustrated as no. 83) 

Literature

Juan Acha, "La Pintura de Gunther Gerzso," Revista Plural, no. 74, July, 1974, Mexico City, illustrated in color 

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. The colors are vibrant and the media layer is stable. A few scattered pinpoint pigment losses are present along the extreme lower edge of the board, and a few scattered pinpoint spots of accretion are present along the extreme left edge of the board. Two brown-toned spots of accretion are present in the lower left quadrant, approximately three inches from the lower left corner of the central rectangle. Light wear is present to each of the extreme upper corners of the board.
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