Francisco Zuniga
Mexican, born Costa Rica, 1912 - 1998Yucateca Con Fruta, 1974
Not on view
Silkscreen on paper
Dimensions24 × 30 in. (61 × 76.2 cm)
Gift of Argosy Partners and Bond Street Partners, 1980.10
Carlos Merida once described Zuniga's sculpture, "a new poetic-abstract romanticism. Although they follow the rhythm of universal art, their style is thoroughly Mexican. The color and smell of the Mexican earth is in their painting."
Like many of his government sculptural commissions, Zuniga in Yucateca con Fruta executes a stylized female figure to symbolize fertility, labor and harvest. Here we see not a particular woman whom he sketched during his travels, but the strength and earthiness in the figure that plays a felicitous conception symbolizing the economic strength and rural background of the artist's country illustrated through its people.
