Fernando de Szyszlo (b. 1925)

Galería Alfred Wild, New York
Private Collection, Beverly Hills
Sale: Christie's, New York, Important Latin American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, May 19, 1992, lot 179, illustrated in color
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Mario Vargas Llosa, Fernando de Szyszlo, Bogotá, 1991, p. 144, illustrated in color 

This work is in very good condition overall. The canvas is unlined and well-stretched. The colors are vibrant, and the media layer is stable. A minor diagonal scuff measuring less than ½ inch in length is present in the upper left corner. A circular isolated area of fine craquelure measuring less than 1 inch in diameter is present in the upper center, approximately nine inches down from the top edge of the canvas.
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Szyszlo’s world includes whatever can be embraced by the imagination, from nature to the frontiers of fantasy, where the world that appeals to the tactile sense may produce rotund images. A world that is possible within the rich imagination of those who are aware of the limits but who actually do not have any; this is where we find the roots of the entire visual universe that can come into being and that we are free to use.

Mario Vargas Llosa
Fernando De Szyszlo, Colombia, 1991, p.138