CASA ARRUINADA
Type:Print/graphic art
Year:1929
Size:13.00" x 18.00"
Medium:Ink
Signed:Lower Right
Jose Clemente Orozco ART FOR SALE
1883 Guzman, Mexico - 1949 Mexico City, Mexico. Known for: Mural painting.
Jose Clemente Orozco was born on November 23, 1883 in Ciudad Guzman, Jalisco, Mexico. Orozco's giant murals made him the most powerful of Mexico's Big Three, which included Diego Rivera and David... Read full biography
Jose Clemente Orozco was born on November 23, 1883 in Ciudad Guzman, Jalisco, Mexico. Orozco's giant murals made him the most powerful of Mexico's Big Three, which included Diego Rivera and David Siqueiros. Orozco's work caught the spirit of Mexico, bloodied and in ruins, emerging from many years... Read full biography
Jose Clemente Orozco was born on November 23, 1883 in Ciudad Guzman, Jalisco, Mexico. Orozco's giant murals made him the most powerful of Mexico's Big Three, which included Diego Rivera and David Siqueiros. Orozco's work caught the spirit of Mexico, bloodied and in ruins, emerging from many years of brutal class warfare. He was controversial, considered cold and unemotional, fascist, (he wore a swastika in his buttonhole and admired Hitler), hating anything religious. Yet his wife insisted he... Read full biography
Jose Clemente Orozco was born on November 23, 1883 in Ciudad Guzman, Jalisco, Mexico. Orozco's giant murals made him the most powerful of Mexico's Big Three, which included Diego Rivera and David Siqueiros. Orozco's work caught the spirit of Mexico, bloodied and in ruins, emerging from many years of brutal class warfare. He was controversial, considered cold and unemotional, fascist, (he wore a swastika in his buttonhole and admired Hitler), hating anything religious. Yet his wife insisted he was a loving family man. One of his most famous murals was at Dartmouth College, a commission that he received at the recommendation of Nelson Rockefeller. He needed assistance to prepare the walls because he had lost his left hand in a childhood... Read full biography
Jose Clemente Orozco was born on November 23, 1883 in Ciudad Guzman, Jalisco, Mexico. Orozco's giant murals made him the most powerful of Mexico's Big Three, which included Diego Rivera and David Siqueiros. Orozco's work caught the spirit of Mexico, bloodied and in ruins, emerging from many years of brutal class warfare. He was controversial, considered cold and unemotional, fascist, (he wore a swastika in his buttonhole and admired Hitler), hating anything religious. Yet his wife insisted he was a loving family man. One of his most famous murals was at Dartmouth College, a commission that he received at the recommendation of Nelson Rockefeller. He needed assistance to prepare the walls because he had lost his left hand in a childhood accident, but he did all the painting himself. He died in Mexico City on September 7, 1949. Writtten and submitted by Jean Ershler Schatz, a... Read full biography
Jose Clemente Orozco - Art for Sale (4 available)
Velada
Type:Painting
Size:13.00" x 20.00"
Medium:Gouache
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
This piece has been authenticated by the Orozco family and has a notation on the revers.
Revolution, 1929
Type:Print
Size:15.75" x 33.75"
Medium:Lithograph
Signed:Signed
Los Desocupados (The Unemployed)
Type:Print
Year:1932
Size:23.75" x 18.00"
Medium:Lithograph
Signed:Signed and Dated
Notes:
Good condition lithograph printed in Paris, 1932. From the collection of Taos, New Mexico artist R.C. Ellis and his wife Rosa Clark Ellis.