This is a beautiful and unique mid-century Xavier Gonzalez abstract painting.

A terrific estate find! Rolled up in the corner was this one-of-a-kind original.
Hand-drawn and hand-painted - this was a man with a story to tell with extra touches as he saw fit. Hand-signed XG in the bottom right - he signed many exactly like this.

Abstract figures with a Spanish feel - looks like crosses and possibly headstones. Very spiritual feeling to it - is it showing a graveyard, a mission, purgatory, or death/after-life/ascension? It all is open to one's own interpretation, of course. Picasso and cubist influence. His nudes remind us of Picasso's.

SIZE: Approx. 26" x 25". Painting is 22" in diameter.

**This has been verified as an original Gonzalez by one of his estate's executors.**
Dates from mid-50s to early 60s.

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Xavier Gonzalez (1898-1993) was a Spanish American artist. He was born in Almeria, Spain. He lived in Argentina and Mexico for some time, planning to become an engineer in a gold mine. In 1925, he immigrated to the United States.

Gonzalez began his studies at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1921 to 1923, and his uncle, Jose Arpa, studied with him there. He also studied at the San Carlos Academy in Mexico City, as well as in Paris and the Far East. In 1931, Gonzalez became a US citizen, In in 1935 he married fellow artist Ethel Edwards (1915-1999) who was a student of Gonzales at Newcomb College. Gonzales commandeered the canteen wall at Newcomb for the use of his art students.

Gonzalez's works have been displayed throughout the United States including at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as in Paris, Venice, Brussels, and Tokyo. He taught art at Tulane University, the Brooklyn Museum, Case Western Reserve University, and the Newcomb Memorial School of Art, and was the director of the art school at Sul Ross State Teachers College, in Alpine, Texas.

Gonzalez died of leukemia in 1993, at the age of 94, at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx, New York City.

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Excellent condition. There are two tiny pin holes in the very center of the circle where I believe he put in something sharp to measure and draw the circle. It has some rough edges with tears and paint in the four corners, as can be seen in the photo. It has been kept rolled so it has some handling wear. Almost all of the issues I've described would be covered once the painting is properly matted.