Autorretrato 1943
Landscape with Fruit
Sailboats and Fish
Offering (Bodegon)
Apprentice Bullfighters
Watermelon and Shell
Equilibrium 1944
I remember about 10 years ago I visited a friend in Mexico City, an art historian and collector, to see an acquisition he had made. It was a massive and menacing Dr. Atl landscape that once hung in the DF establishment, Prendes, a restaurant where politicians, journalists, finance people, and "farandula" types went to be seen in the Centro.
When I entered the apartment of Mr. Perez-Escamilla, I was stopped by maybe 30 or so small oil still lifes on cardboard hanging in his entry hall. I was astonished. I was immediately reminded of Di Chirico. They were small but impacting, strange little worlds, that at first were familiar, but on closer inspection, were loaded with fantasy and whimsy. I have been a fan of this work ever since.
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