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FERNANDO DE SZYSZLO 7 ETCHINGS

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Fernando De Szyszlo Valdelomar (born July 5, 1925 in Lima) is a Peruvian artist who is a key figure in advancing abstract art in Latin America since the mid-fifties and is still today the leading plastic artist of Peru.Szyszlo studied at the School of Plastic Arts of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. At the age of 24 he traveled to Europe where he studied the works of the masters, particularly Rembrandt, Titian and Tintoretto, and absorbed the variedinfluences of cubism, surrealism, informalism, and abstraction. While in Paris he met Octavio Paz and André Breton and frequented the group of writers and intellectuals that met regularly at the Cafe Flore engaging in vigorous discussions on how they could participate in the international modern movement while preserving their Latin American cultural identity. Upon his return to Peru, Szyszlo became a major force for artistic renewal in his country breaking new ground byexpressing a Peruvian subject matter in a non-representational style. This is a rare portfolio of 7 mezzotint etchings entitled "El Lugar Los Instrumentos". Done by Szyszlo in 1991, printed and published by Arte Dos

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