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Fernando de Szyszlo

La Ejecución de Tupac-Amaru XII (The Execution of Tupac-Amaru XII), 1965

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Description

Maker

  • Fernando de Szyszlo, b. 1925, Peruvian

Title

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

Year

1965

Medium

Encaustic on wood

Materials/Techniques

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

Signed inside right hand door:L.A. Szyszlo

Type

  • Paintings

Credit

Nancy Sayles Day Collection of Modern Latin American Art

Object Number

76.040

Projects & Publications

Publications

The First America

Selections From the Nancy Sayles Day Collection of Latin American Art

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Raid the Icebox Now with Pablo Helguera

February 7, 2020 - August 21, 2021

Multi-Part Art

July 11, 2008 - March 29, 2009

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"

March 15 - April 28, 1996

Migrations

February 21 - April 26, 1992

Del Nuevo Mundo

June 17 - September 4, 1988

The Nancy Sayles Day Collection

January 4 - February 6, 1977

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