Composition 14 (Composición 14) from 21 Printmakers from Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela (21 Estampadores de Colombia, Mexico y Venezuela)

Fernando Garcia PonceWW-1972-M055655

1972·Lithograph from a portfolio of ten intaglios, seven screenprints, three lithographs, and one aquatint·composition (irreg.): 14 × 15 7/8" (35.6 × 40.3 cm) ; sheet (irreg.): 21 7/8 × 30" (55.5 × 76.2 cm)

Catalogue

Year: 1972
Medium: Lithograph from a portfolio of ten intaglios, seven screenprints, three lithographs, and one aquatint
Dimensions: composition (irreg.): 14 × 15 7/8" (35.6 × 40.3 cm) ; sheet (irreg.): 21 7/8 × 30" (55.5 × 76.2 cm)
Collection: Museum of Modern Art
Artist: Fernando Garcia Ponce

Artist

Fernando Garcia Ponce

Printmaking

Fernando Garcia Ponce was a Mexican painter and printmaker whose abstract compositions emerged from the postwar artistic ferment of Mexico City. Working primarily in oil and lithography, his geometric and gestural abstraction reflected an engagement with both European modernism and Mexico's indigenous visual traditions. Garcia Ponce developed a distinctive vocabulary of interlocking forms and chromatic relationships that occupied the space between constructivism and expressionism.

Mexico City, Mexico

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