ALBERTO GUTIERREZ BESSUDO (Armenia, Colombia, 1935).
"De la belleza incesante", 1977.
Oil on táblex.
Signed, titled, located and dated on the back.
With label on the back of the Multitudes Gallery.
Measurements: 92 x 78 cm; 94.5 x 81 cm (frame).
Gutierrez depicts in this panel an open night sky, unified by a diffuse light that can almost be felt.
Alberto Gutiérrez Bessudo did his initial training in Nice, France, later completing it in Cali, Colombia. In 1954 he was awarded a scholarship to study at the University of Architecture and Fine Arts in Florida. He later trained with Morris Kantor and Vaclav Vytlacil at the Art Students League in New York. He has led a remarkably nomadic existence, travelling to Paris, Italy, Greece, Stockholm, Mexico, Ibiza, Brazil, Venezuela, New Zealand and California. He has participated in numerous private and group exhibitions at major international centres, and his work is held, among other institutions, at the Centro Artístico de Barranquilla, the Frost Art Museum in Miami, the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, the Miami Museum of Modern Art and the Museo de Arte Moderno de Cartagena.