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Gunther Gerzso

Imagen Apotropaíco (Apotropaic Image)

1953

On View in Gertrude Bernoudy Gallery, Room 4

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  • Artist Gunther Gerzso (Mexican, 1915–2000)
  • Title Imagen Apotropaíco (Apotropaic Image)
  • Date 1953
  • Medium Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions unframed | 39 5/8 x 25 9/16 x 1 1/2 in.
  • Credit line Gift of Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., 1962
  • Object number WU 4021
  • Currently on View Gertrude Bernoudy Gallery, Room 4

Artists in Exile: European Surrealists in the US during and after World War II
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 09/01/2023

1962
Mr. Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.

Inscription Recto, lower right, in brown paint:

Inscription Verso, lower right, in black marker: at LR of canvas, written (signed?) in black marker:

Label Verso, upper left of stretcher, fragmented at ULC, yellowed rectangular label, printed in black:

Label Verso, upper center of stretcher, yellowed rectangular label, in black:

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