SERGIO GONZALEZ - TORNERO (1927 - 2020) Signed Print 1969 CHILE Modernism Abstract
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Sergio Gonzalez-Tornero (1927-2020)
Here we have an amazing original limited edition signed and dated etching print by well-listed modernist artist Sergio Gonzalez-Tornero. Numbered 44/100. Titled “THE BIRTH OF VENUS”. Signed and dated 1969.
The piece is beautifully professionally framed and has a certificate of authenticity on the back.
Piece measures 12.5 x 24.5 inches.Matted.Frame measures 22 x 34.5 inches.Sergio Carlo Higinio Gonzalez-Tornero, painter and prinmaker, wa...s born in Santiago, Chile on May 27, 1927. He was the son of diplomats and studied in Chile, Brazil, and the United States. In 1958 he studied at the Slade School in London before moving to Paris where he studied at Stanley William Hayter's Atelier 17 where he met his wife, fellow printmaker Adrienne Cullom. They settled permanently in New York in 1962, where Sergio and Adrienne worked together at Bob Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop. After visiting Haida Gwaii, Canada he became fascinated with Haida art in which he saw a deeply spiritual and gloriously formalist view of life. This became and remained a powerful influence in his work.
Principally a printmaker, Gonzalez-Tornero has had more than forty solo exhibitions in Chile, Canada, Europe and the United States. Sergio discussed his printmaking technniques in an essay on page 325 of The Art of the Print by Fritz Eichenberg.
Gonzalez-Tornero was awarded a fellowship by the New York State Foundation for the Arts in 1987 and a grant from the Adolph and Ester Gottlieb Foundation in 1990. He is a member of the Society of American Graphic Artists, Boston Printmakers and the Philadelphia Print Club. His work has been included in numerous exhibitions internationally including the UNESCO Prize at the International Biennial of Prints in Cracow, Poland, first prize at the XII Biennale of Latin American Prints from Latin America and The Caribbean in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Trustees Prize for Painting at the Art of the Northeast Exhibit at the Silvermine Guild in New Canaan, CT. A retrospective exhibition of his prints was mounted in 1998 at the Antiguo Asilo de Beneficencia, in San Juan. Gonzalez-Tornero is included in numerous collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the New York Public Library, the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art.
Sergio Gonzalez-Tornero died on May 3, 2020 in Mahopac, New York.
Here we have an amazing original limited edition signed and dated etching print by well-listed modernist artist Sergio Gonzalez-Tornero. Numbered 44/100. Titled “THE BIRTH OF VENUS”. Signed and dated 1969.
The piece is beautifully professionally framed and has a certificate of authenticity on the back.
Piece measures 12.5 x 24.5 inches.Matted.Frame measures 22 x 34.5 inches.Sergio Carlo Higinio Gonzalez-Tornero, painter and prinmaker, wa...s born in Santiago, Chile on May 27, 1927. He was the son of diplomats and studied in Chile, Brazil, and the United States. In 1958 he studied at the Slade School in London before moving to Paris where he studied at Stanley William Hayter's Atelier 17 where he met his wife, fellow printmaker Adrienne Cullom. They settled permanently in New York in 1962, where Sergio and Adrienne worked together at Bob Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop. After visiting Haida Gwaii, Canada he became fascinated with Haida art in which he saw a deeply spiritual and gloriously formalist view of life. This became and remained a powerful influence in his work.
Principally a printmaker, Gonzalez-Tornero has had more than forty solo exhibitions in Chile, Canada, Europe and the United States. Sergio discussed his printmaking technniques in an essay on page 325 of The Art of the Print by Fritz Eichenberg.
Gonzalez-Tornero was awarded a fellowship by the New York State Foundation for the Arts in 1987 and a grant from the Adolph and Ester Gottlieb Foundation in 1990. He is a member of the Society of American Graphic Artists, Boston Printmakers and the Philadelphia Print Club. His work has been included in numerous exhibitions internationally including the UNESCO Prize at the International Biennial of Prints in Cracow, Poland, first prize at the XII Biennale of Latin American Prints from Latin America and The Caribbean in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Trustees Prize for Painting at the Art of the Northeast Exhibit at the Silvermine Guild in New Canaan, CT. A retrospective exhibition of his prints was mounted in 1998 at the Antiguo Asilo de Beneficencia, in San Juan. Gonzalez-Tornero is included in numerous collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the New York Public Library, the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art.
Sergio Gonzalez-Tornero died on May 3, 2020 in Mahopac, New York.
