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Fernando de Szyszlo

La Ejecución de Tupac-Amaru XII (The Execution of Tupac-Amaru XII)

Maker

Fernando de Szyszlo (Peruvian, b. 1925)

Title

La Ejecución de Tupac-Amaru XII (The Execution of Tupac-Amaru XII)

Year

1965

Medium

  • Encaustic on wood

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • Encaustic on wood

Materials

encaustic paint

Supports

  • wood

Dimensions

150.2 x 239.4 cm (59 1/8 x 94 1/4 inches) doors open

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signature: Signed inside right hand door:L.A. Szyszlo

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Nancy Sayles Day Collection of Modern Latin American Art

Object Number

76.040

Type

  • Paintings

Publications

  • Books

The First America: Selections From the Nancy Sayles Day Collection of Latin American Art: An Exhibition of Works from the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design

Alt Author: Author Stringer, John, New England Foundation for the Arts.

Exhibition History

Raid the Icebox Now with Pablo Helguera
Inventarios / Inventories
Feb 07, 2020 – Aug 21, 2021
Multi-Part Art
Contemporary Works in the Collection
Jul 11, 2008 – Mar 29, 2009

Label copy

Fernando de Szyszlo is an important Peruvian painter who advanced the development of abstraction in Latin America starting in the mid-1950s. After traveling and studying both Old Master and Modernist art in Paris, he returned to Peru. There he became known for expressing subject matter specific to Peru’s history and culture in a nonrepresentational style. Featuring a vibrant palette and rich gestural brushwork characteristic of much abstract painting of the 1950s and 60s, this triptych was inspired by the tragic death of the Peruvian hero Tupac Amaru (d. 1572), the last indigenous leader of the Inca state.

"De Donde Vengo"
Selections from the Nancy Sayles Day Collection of Modern Latin American Art
Mar 15, 1996 – Apr 28, 1996
Migrations
Latin American Art and the Modernist Imagination
Feb 21, 1992 – Apr 26, 1992
Del Nuevo Mundo
The Nancy Sayles Day Collection of Latin American Art
Jun 17, 1988 – Sep 04, 1988
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Fernando de Szyszlo (Peruvian, b. 1925)
La Ejecución de Tupac-Amaru XII (The Execution of Tupac-Amaru XII), 1965
Encaustic on wood
150.2 x 239.4 cm (59 1/8 x 94 1/4 inches) doors open
Nancy Sayles Day Collection of Modern Latin American Art 76.040

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