Gunther Gerzso
1915-2000
Anatomía
1943
Opaque watercolor and graphite pencil with paper collage elements on paper mounted to board, on fabric covered wood panel.
13 15/16 x 9 7/8 inches (35.4 x 25.1 cm)
Gift of the Modern and Contemporary Collectors Committee in Memory of Marion Selig.
2015.29
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This drawing is a rare example of Mexican Surrealism. Gerszo, who began his career as a stage designer, met the European Surrealists in exile in Mexico during World War II and went through a brief surrealist period from 1942 to 1946 before devoting his life to abstraction. References to Salvador Dali and Frida Kahlo combine with Mexican popular imagery in this evocation of a nude woman in a volcanic landscape. The collaged elements recall the flaps of anatomical treatises and medical books.
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