Gunther Gerzso
1915-2000
Anatomía
1943
13 15/16 x 9 7/8 inches (35.4 x 25.1 cm)
Opaque watercolor and graphite pencil with paper collage elements on paper mounted to board, on fabric covered wood panel.
2015.29
Gift of the Modern and Contemporary Collectors Committee in Memory of Marion Selig.
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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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