Slide presentation of the work of the great sculptor Francisco Zuniga. From his beginnings in his native Costa Rica to his final work in his new home Mexico.

2. Francisco Zúñiga

5. Costa Rica
1912 - 1936

6. Manuel Maria Zúñiga Rodríguez

11. El pintor

18. portfolio "Grabados en Madera"
Publicado en Costa Rica en 1934 por la
Imprenta Nacional, San Jose. Incluia xilografias
de: Francisco Amighetti, Francisco Zuniga,
Manuel de la Cruz Gonzales, Carlos M. Salazar
Herrera, Gilbert Laporte, Theodorico Quiros y
Adolfo Saenz.

30. Trece piezas encontradas en la huaca de
Zapandí, cerca de la ciudad de Filadelfia
(Guanacaste), las acuarelas y los dibujos
fueron un encargo hecho por el arqueólogo
Jorge Lines a fin de contar con láminas de
colores que le sirviesen para dictar clases
sobre arte precolombino costarricense.
1934 - 1936

39. La escultura

41. La embarrada maje

45. México

49. In the 1930s, for many radical artist and intellectuals throughout
the world, it was Mexico and not Paris that stood for innovation
in the arts. Artist in Mexico were seen to have challenged the
authority of a Eurocentric aesthetic and asserted the values of a
self-consciously post-colonial culture…
Far from repudiating modernism, the muralists together with
other Latin American artist have used modernism to their own
ends, or have expropriated or subverted it to produce an
alternative modernism better suited to a Latin American
context…
Oriana Baddeley and Valerie Fraser
Drawing the Line: Art and Cultural Identity en Contemporary
Latin America
1990

51. 1934…

67. “Mujeres” 1939

68. El escultor de la revolucion
Perhaps the best sculptor in this political
moderne style was Francisco Zúñiga
Enciclopedia britannica

75. CONJUNTO ESCULTORICO
DEDICADO A RAMÓN LÓPEZ
VELARDE
Zacatecas 1951

95. Dos Mujeres de Pie, 1959 bronce con patina
verde altura: 29.5 cm

98. Mujer
reclinada,
piedra de
Xaltocan,
1959

100. Desnudo reclinado 1963

101. Desnudo de cuclillas - 1963.

102. Mujer agachada, 1963

103. Yucatecaencuclillasconnaranja.circa1965

105. Mujer sentada, Bronce, 1965

106. Mujer mexicana, 1966

107. JovenReclinadaBronce,1966

108. Silviaagachada1967

109. DesnudodeSilviaconelpelolargo,1967.

111. El umbral - 1970

113. Desnudo Reclinado, 1970, Francisco Zuniga

116. MujersentadaconrebozoOrante,1971

117. Mujerdecuclillascontocado1971

118. Mujer Agachada, 1971

119. Las
comadres
1971

120. Grupodecuatromujeresdepie,1972

121. Juchitecasentada,marmoldecarrara,1972-1979

122. Mujer Hacha, Marmol negro, 1973

125. Familia bronce 1974

126. TresMujeresdePie-1974

127. Yalalteca, 1975

128. Mujersentada,1975.Bronce.

129. Yalalteca en un Taburete, 1975

130. Abuelaynino,1978

131. DOS MUJERES, 1978

132. Madre e hijo, 1979

133. RosaSentada,1981

136. Tres mujeres caminando, 1981

139. MadreeHijaSentadas,1981

143. MadreconNinoenlaCadera;1982

144. Impresiones de Egipto, Plancha 7, 1982

146. Mujerlavando,1986

147. ROSA EN TABURETE, PELO LARGO, 1988

158. Another record price at Sotheby's was the $3.7
million paid for the 1974 bronze sculpture
Grupo de cuatro mujeres de pie (estimate:
$700,000/$900,000), by Costa Rican-born
Mexican sculptor Francisco Zúñiga

160. This is the end…