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Jacques and Natasha Gelman: Collecting Modern Mexico

Gunther Gerzso

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