GUNTHER GERZO OIL PAINTING (MEXICO)
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Attributed to Gunther Gerzo, no coa, private collection, medium: oil, measurements: 29"HX34"W framed, mint condition Biography: Gunther Gerzso was a Mexican painter, designer and director and screenwriter for film and theatre. In the late 1930s Gerzso also started painting as a hobby. The steady parade of beautiful actresses and interesting people he met in show business provided him with a great inspiration for his canvases which showed a mix of European and Mexican influences. His friend, Bernard Pfriem, convinced him to enter the annual Art Exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art where two of his works were selected. It was then that Gunther Gerzso started considering himself a painter more than a set designer. In 1941 Gerzso and his wife moved permanently to Mexico City and in 1944 he joined a group of surrealist painters that had taken refuge from the Second World War in Mexico. These artists were Benjamin Péret, Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo, Alice Rahon and Wolfgang Paalen. His works from this period show a clear surrealist influence, which he later abandoned when he started working his famous abstracts.
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GUNTHER GERZO OIL PAINTING (MEXICO)
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