
Jacques and Natasha Gelman: Collecting Modern Mexico
El Señor del Viento
Auction Closed
November 19, 11:13 PM GMT
Estimate
150,000 - 250,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Jacques and Natasha Gelman: Collecting Modern Mexico
Gunther Gerzso
1915 - 2000
El Señor del Viento
signed Gerzso and dated 50 (lower right); signed Gerzso, titled and dated 49 (on the reverse)
oil on Masonite
27 ⅞ by 19 ⅝ in.
70.8 by 49.8 cm.
Executed in 1949-50.
Jacques and Natasha Gelman, Mexico City (acquired directly from the artist circa 1950)
Vergel Foundation, Delaware (acquired by descent from the above in 1998)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Mexico City, Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno, Gunther Gerzso: exposición retrospectiva, 1963, no. 11, n.p., illustrated
Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno, Galería de Exposiciones Temporales, Gunther Gerzso: Pinturas Dibujos, 1970, no. 14, n.p., illustrated
Mexico City, Centro Cultural | Arte Contemporáneo, La colección de pintura Mexicana de Jacques y Natasha Gelman, 1992, no. 2, p. 41, illustrated in color; p. 172
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, Gunther Gerzso: Pintura, gráfica y dibujo, 1949-1993, 1993, no. 1, p. 9, illustrated in color; p. 30
Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno and Chicago, The Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Risking the Abstract: Mexican Modernism and the Art of Gunther Gerzso, 2003-04, p. 326, pl. 38, illustrated in color
Luis Cardoza y Aragón, Gunther Gerzso, Mexico City, 1972, no. 8, n.p., illustrated
Exh. Cat., Mexico City, Salón Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Sección Anual de Invitados, Gerzso, Mérida, Tamayo, 1978, n.n., p. 26, illustrated
Octavia Paz and John Golding, Gerzso, Neuchatel, 1983, no. 2, n.p., illustrated in color; p. 127
Rita Eder, Gunther Gerzso: El esplendor de la muralla, Mexico City, 1994, no. 10, n.p., illustrated in color; p. 183
Exh. Cat., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (and traveling), Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 1996, p. 27, fig. 10, illustrated in color; p. 84
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