Composition 1972. Gerardo Chávez. Peru

Gerardo Chavez is a Peruvian visual artist born in 1937, belonging to the generation of artists who renewed post-war South American painting. He has produced paintings, lithographs, drawings and sculptures. Trained at the Fine Arts School of Lima, the capital of Peru, where he was part of the "golden promotion" of 1959, Gerardo Chavez completed his education by traveling to France and Italy. Some of his compositions can recall the surrealist influences of some South American counterparts such as the Mexican Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) and the Chilean Roberto Matta (1911-2002) with whom he became friends. Gerardo Chavez has exhibited mainly in galleries in Peru and Europe, such as Paris, Florence, Bruxelles and Amsterdam. In 2017, the Museo de la Nación in Lima hosted a major retrospective entitled "Chávez 80", presenting his beginnings at the Beaux-Arts and his discovery of the European avant-garde, his oil pastel drawings from the 1970s, up to his most recent works in burlap.
Oil pastel, colored pencil on canvas.
Very original work. The canvas, quite thin, seems to have been placed on boards whose boundaries and texture have been reproduced in certain places by scraping. On either side of the vertical lines, we observe a discontinuity of figures which evokes the play of folds of the surrealists.
Work available in Lima Peru. 
Provenance:
Private collection Belgium
De Vuyst Lokeren, Belgium, sale october 10, 2009.
Artcurial Paris sale October 24, 2010.