José Cúneo (1887-1977)

Ranchos orilleros

细节

José Cúneo (1887-1977)
Ranchos orilleros
signed and dated 'J. Cúneo Florida 1932' lower left
oil on burlap
24¼ x 36in. (61.6 x 91.5cm.)
Painted in 1932

来源

Private collection, Montevideo
Anon. sale, Christie's New York, Important Latin American Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture and Prints, May 17, 1993, lot 50 (illustrated in color)

拍品专文

José Cúneo experienced a lengthy career in which he assimilated and experimented with numerous stages and transformations, yet it is in the 1930's that his work was at its most powerful. It is in this period that the sky, clouds and earth are contorted through a lense of expressionistic torpidity. In works of this period the sky and earth meet in curvaceous union, buildings bob upon the churning waters of the earth like boats and the whole world seems ready to flow down an unseen yet open drain. The pressure of the distorted elements weigh upon each other and remind us of the supremacy of natural forces in our lives.