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Francisco Zúñiga (1912–1998), born in Costa Rica and active in Mexico, placed the female body at the centre of an investigation of volume. Training in the workshop of his father, a sculptor of religious figures, taught him to work stone and wood. His representations of Indigenous women avoid idealisation, attending to bodily weight and relationships between people.
LACMA's Standing Juchiteca, a bronze cast in 1966, stands almost two metres tall, giving monumentality a tangible physical dimension. This concern also appears on paper in Country Family (1976), a lithograph in the same museum. The portfolio Impresiones de Egipto (1982), represented by several sheets at the Bowers Museum, extends his interest through seated women with pyramidal silhouettes. Bodily attitudes become a means of making human relationships perceptible.
This profile brings together identity references for Francisco Zúñiga and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
Germann · Dobiaschofsky · DognyAuction · Piguet
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Charcoal and coloured chalk on paper
Femme assise au sol
Fusain et craie de couleur sur papier
Catalogue period : 2019-05-10
Published result : 1200 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 1200
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Pencil and chalk drawing
Dos Muchachas, 1981
Dessin au crayon et à la craie
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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Coloured pencil drawing
Cuatro Mujeres Caminando, 1980
Dessin au crayon de couleur
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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Pencil and chalk drawing
Chunca, 1982
Dessin au crayon et à la craie
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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Chalk drawing
Mujer pensativa, 1966
Dessin à la craie
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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Pencil and chalk drawing
Dos mujeres de pie con rebozo, 1981
Dessin au crayon et à la craie
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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Charcoal and pastel on paper
Vendedoras de Fruta, 1966
Fusain et pastel sur papier
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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Pencil and dry pastel on paper
Deux femmes assises avec rebozo
Crayon et pastel sec sur papier
Date to be documented
Published result : 2246 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
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Charcoal and pastel on paper
Indienne assise
Fusain et pastel sur papier
Catalogue period : 2017-03-15
Published result : 2400 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 2500–3500
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