1959.52 Enrique Zañartu, Fog with Claws, 1957

Despite his success in abstraction, Enrique Zañartu rejected categorization with Chilean modernists and staunchly believed himself to be a realist. Working in the shadow of his younger brother, the print magnate Nemesio Antúnez, Zañartu took on the surname of his mother, divorcing himself from the fame received by the familial figurehead of modern Chilean art. Outside of painting, Zañartu was an active printmaker and produced illustrations for literary works by Pablo Neruda, Julio Cortázar, and Octavio Paz. Here Zañartu refers to the mountainous Andean landscape, painting abstracted peaks in earthy, muted tones. The claws are executed with thick, emotive brushstrokes, slashing through the canvas and evoking the deep incisions of a printer’s burin. 

Erin Piñon, Tower Gallery: Latin American Art, Label text, 2017.

Zañartu_Enrique: ULAN:500080572

Chile (nation): TGN: 1000049

France (nation): TGN: 1000070

oil paint: AAT: 300015050

paper (fiber product): AAT: 300014109

board: AAT: 300014616

composition wood board (composition board): AAT: 300411316

painting (visual works): AAT: 300033618

works on paper: AAT: 300189621

fog: AAT: 300055374

claws (animal components): AAT: 300379351

realism (artistic concept): AAT: 300056550

Antúnez_Nemesio: ULAN: 500082877

printmaking: AAT: 300131119

literature (humanities): AAT: 300054273

mountains: AAT: 300008795

Andes (mountain system/South America): TGN: 7016589

landscapes (representations): AAT: 300015636

landscapes (environments): AAT: 300008626

abstract: AAT: 300108127

abstraction: AAT: 300056508

peaks (landforms): AAT: 300008798

thick (size-dimensions): AAT: 300379390

layers (components): AAT: 300226788

paint (coating): AAT: 300015029

paint layers: AAT: 300178450

brush strokes: AAT: 300185434

burin: AAT: 300193147

figures (representations): AAT: 300189808

form (composition concepts): AAT: 300056272

geometric shape: AAT: 300263819

geometric motifs: AAT: 300009764

geometric abstraction: AAT: 300056509

curves (geometric figures): AAT: 300378887

curvilinear (shape): AAT: 300154222

lines (geometric concept): AAT: 300056279

Neruda_Pablo (Chilean poet): ULAN: 500337951

Cortázar_Julio (Argentinian writer): DMA

Paz_Octavio (Octavio Paz Lozano / Mexican poet and diplomat): DMA

From 1959: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas Art Association Purchase, purchased from the artist [1], [2], [3], [4]

[1] The main source for this provenance was existing information in TMS (in Dallas Museum of Art Digital Collections Records Object Files). Exceptions and other supporting documents are noted.  

[2] The main source for this provenance is letter from Jerry Bywaters, Director of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, to Enrique Zañartu (dated December 19, 1959, copy in Dallas Museum of Art Collections Records Object File, Confidential). Exceptions and other supporting documents are noted.

[3] The main source for this provenance is letter (inventory list) (n.d., copy in Dallas Museum of Art Collections Records Object File, Confidential). Exceptions and other supporting documents are noted.

[4] The Dallas Art Association is the predecessor to the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. The name was abandoned in 1970. Works from this collection were transferred to the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. The name of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, founded in 1933, changed to the Dallas Museum of Art in 1983.

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