Ricardo Martínez (1918-2009), El gusto

Ricardo Martínez (1918-2009)
El gusto
signed and dated 'Ricardo Martínez 56' (lower right)
oil on canvas
31 ½ x 41 in. (80 x 104.1 cm.)
Painted in 1956.

Pre-Lot Text
PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED COLLECTION
Post Lot Text
1 Interviewed in the film Recordando a Ricardo Martínez en su centenario. Fundación Ricardo Martínez de Hoyos y Canal 22. (November 9, 2018). “Yo amo estas cosas que me rodean. Por eso vivo rodeado de arte pre-Colombino. Ahora, claro, soy un hombre moderno y trato de hacer una cosa diferente. Es un punto de referencia pero remoto.” My translation. Accessed October 5, 2019.
2 Ricardo Martínez’s collection was donated to INAH following his death.
3 Interviewed in the film Recordando a Ricardo Martínez en su centenario. Fundación Ricardo Martínez de Hoyos y Canal 22. (November 9, 2018). My translation. Accessed October 7, 2019.
4 Teresa Eckmann, “Ricardo Martínez, Elotes,” Christie’s Latin American Art Sale Catalogue May 22-23(New York: Christie Manson and Woods Ltd., 2019), 46.
5 Indigenismo (Indigenism) here refers to a movement at the late-19th/turn of the 20th Century and through the immediate post-Revolution period in Mexico led by intellectuals such as archaeologist Manuel Gamio and Minister of Education José Vasconcelos who simultaneously acknowledged the pre-Columbian past as the root of Mexican nationalism while (problematically) advocating for the assimilation of the contemporary native populations.
6 See Chapter 35, “From Revolution to Evolution, 1940-58” in Michael C. Meyer, Wiliam L. Sherman and Susan M. Deeds, The Course of Mexican History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 555-572.