ALBERTO GUTIERREZ BESSUDO (Armenia, Colombia, 1935).
"The Milky Way", 1977.
Oil on cardboard.
Signed, dated and titled on the back.
Presents label of the Multitudes Gallery of Madrid, on the back.
Measurements: 72 x 61 cm; 75 x 64 cm (frame).
Alberto Gutiérrez Bessudo did his initial training in Nice, France, later completing it in Cali, Colombia. In 1954 he was awarded a scholarship to study at the University of Architecture and Fine Arts in Florida. He later trained with Morris Kantor and Vaclav Vytlacil at the Art Students League in New York. He has led a remarkably nomadic existence, travelling to Paris, Italy, Greece, Stockholm, Mexico, Ibiza, Brazil, Venezuela, New Zealand and California. He has participated in numerous private and group exhibitions at major international centres, and his work is held, among other institutions, at the Centro Artístico de Barranquilla, the Frost Art Museum in Miami, the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, the Miami Museum of Modern Art and the Museo de Arte Moderno de Cartagena.