Muro blanco (White Wall)

© Estate of Gunther Gerzso

Muro blanco (White Wall)

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Muro blanco (White Wall),

1988

Gunther Gerzso, Mexican, 1915–2000
Printed by De Soto Workshop
1999-45
Gerzso was a Mexican painter and set designer best known for his architectonic and rectilinear abstractions. In the 1950s, after spending his early career in the theater, he began devoting his time exclusively to painting. As seen in these prints, his work synthesizes influences of the modernist architecture of Le Corbusier, which Gerzso had absorbed in his formative years in Switzerland, with stylistic motifs of precolonial Mexican art.

Information

Title
Muro blanco (White Wall)
Dates

1988

Maker
Gunther Gerzso
Printed by De Soto Workshop
Medium
Color lithograph
Dimensions
image: 70.2 x 50.2 cm (27 5/8 x 19 3/4 in.) sheet: 76 x 56.5 cm (29 15/16 x 22 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of David L. Meginnity, Class of 1958
Object Number
1999-45
Place Made

North America, United States, California, San Francisco

Signatures
Signed and dated in graphite, lower right: Gerzso | 88
Inscription
in graphite, lower left: 32/100 "MURO BLANCO"
Marks/Labels/Seals
Blindstamp, lower right: DSW
Culture
Mexican
Type
prints, color lithographs
Materials
paper (fiber product)
Techniques
lithographic engraving (printing process)
Subject
walls, geometric patterns

[unknown]. David L. Meginnity, Class of 1958, by 1999; given to Princeton University Art Museum in 1999.

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