Art Institute of Chicago
La Ciudad Perdida (The Lost City)
Gunther Gerzso · 1948
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist; sold through Galería de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City, to Muriel Kallis Newman, Chicago, 1950 [Mendelsohn 2000, p. 6n1; email from Mary-Anne Martin, in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, November 26, 1980.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Mexico City, Galería de Arte Mexicano, Gunther Gerzso, May 8–31, 1950, cat. 1.
Literature
Published references
- Wolfgang Paalen, Gunther Gerzso, exh. cat. (Galería de Arte Mexicano, 1950), pp. 1, cat. 1; 3; 7.
- Luis Cardoza y Aragón, Gunther Gerzso, Colección de Arte 22 (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1972), pp. 24, fig. 10 (ill.).
- Lotte Mendelsohn, “A Conversation with Gunther Gerzso,” in Gunther Gerzso: In His Memory, Mary-Anne Martin, exh. cat. (Mary-Anne Martin Fine Art, 2000), p. 6n1.
- Diana C. Du Pont, Risking the Abstract: Mexican Modernism and the Art of Gunther Gerzso, exh. cat. (Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 2003), n.p., pl. 33; pp. 118; 326.
- Alan G. Artner, “Gerzso’s mastery richly detailed at Mexican Fine Arts Center,” Chicago Tribune, Mar. 21, 2004, p. 6.
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