Arguably the best expressionist artist of his generation, Jaime de Guzman has created a body of work that is technically and conceptually bold, characterized by wild streaks of color and an alarming surreal vision. The full extent of his powers is dramatized by “Gift of Fossils”. In this dystopian world, we are confronted by the vestiges of life — a shell and a human skull which is broken into two — as the remaining traces of former habitation. In thick, energetic brushstrokes and unsparing figuration, de Guzman is revelatory as to the post-historical outcome of a planet locked in a cycle of extinction and regeneration.
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Jaime de Guzman (b.1942)
Gift Of Fossils
dated 1969
oil on canvas
59” x 55 1/2” (150 cm x 141 cm)
SOLD: PHP 759,200
Provenance: Prominent art collector Abbot Lighter acquired 16 paintings by Jaime de Guzman when the artist was in the USA in 1975. This work was one of them.