GUNTHER GERZSO SIGNED Silk Screen

Signed on lower right corner in graphite, Gerszo 74, AD with watermarks on both ends.Depicts red blocking on lower half with marble pattern in center snd yellow bands on top. Framed In acrylic shadow box with brown linen boarder. Approximately 25.5 x 32 inches, window measures 17.5 x 24 inches.Evident wearing to acrylic box framing.Gunther GERZSO Signed silk screen, Signed Art Mexican artist, Mexican art, signed art, wall art, muralism art, framed art. 12 Art wall.Gunther Gerzso was a Mexican painter, designer and director and screenwriter for film and theatre. In the late 1930s Gerzso 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.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.According to Octavio Paz, Gunther Gerzso was one of the greatest Latin American painters, since it was he, along with Carlos Mérida and Rufino Tamayo, who opposed the ideologist aesthetic movement into which muralism had degenerated.