About this artwork
Born in Mexico to a Hungarian-German-Jewish family, Gunther Gerzso spent his earliest years in Mexico and Switzerland. His intricate abstract works, like Lost City, show the dueling influences of European Cubism and Pre-Columbian art. Of his interest in ancient indigenous objects he once said, “I guess this could sound ridiculous because my mother was German and my father Hungarian. What did I have to do with Pre-Columbian art? And yet I was attracted to it in a tremendously emotional way….I can’t explain it: I felt that I had something in common with the artists who had created these objects. And I also told myself, I live in Mexico….Why don’t I make something that belongs to this country?”
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Contemporary Art
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Artist
- Gunther Gerzso
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Title
- La Ciudad Perdida (The Lost City)
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Place
- Mexico (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1948
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Medium
- Oil on hardboard
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Inscriptions
- Dated upper left: 'Mayo 1948' and signed lower right: 'Gerzso'
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Dimensions
- 55.9 × 71.5 cm (22 × 28 1/8 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman
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Reference Number
- 1980.283
Extended information about this artwork
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