La maceta (The Flowerpot)

© Cecilio Sánchez

La maceta (The Flowerpot)

Currently not on view

La maceta (The Flowerpot),

1996

Cecilio Sánchez, Mexican, born 1957
2001-101

Information

Title
La maceta (The Flowerpot)
Dates

1996

Maker
Cecilio Sánchez
Medium
Watercolor
Dimensions
43.3 × 27.7 cm (17 1/16 × 10 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of David L. Meginnity, Class of 1958
Object Number
2001-101
Place Made

North America, Mexico, Oaxaca

Signatures
Signed and dated in black ink, lower left: Cecilio Sánchez 96
Culture
Mexican
Type
watercolors, drawings
Materials
watercolor, amate paper
Subject
flowers (plants), pots, trees, skull (skeleton component), figures (representations), women, heads

Arte de Oaxaca, Oaxaca City, Mexico (by 2000; sold to Meginnity); David L. Meginnity, Class of 1958, Santa Monica, CA and New Smyrna Beach, FL (until 2001; bequest to the Princeton University Art Museum).

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