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Francisco Zúñiga is famous for being an artist. Known as one of the most important Expressionists to emerge from Latin America, he is remembered for his monumental sculptures, figurative paintings and prints, nude drawings and portraits of Central America’s rural Indigenous women. Even after his death in 1998, Zúñiga’s legacy lives on. His sculptures, drawings, paintings and prints are found in museums around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City, the Fogg Museum at Harvard University, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., the Middelheim Museum in Antwerp, Belgium, and the Open-Air Museum in Hakone, Japan. On 1stDibs, find a range of Francisco Zúñiga art.
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"Madre Juchiteca" Large original color lithograph.
By Francisco Zúñiga
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Madre Juchiteca" 1973 is an original colors lithograph on Arches paper by renown Costa Rican/Mexican artist Francisco Zuniga, 1912-1998. It is hand signed, dated...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Francisco Zuniga Bronze Sculpture, 1965, "Juchiteca Sentada"
By Francisco Zúñiga
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Francisco Zuniga bronze sculpture. Seated female. Edition: 5.
#467 in the Zuniga catalog raisonne. Titled: "Juchiteca Sentada".
Measures: 8 7/8" H x 10 1/4" L x 10 5/8" W (not including the 1 ½" wood plinth).
Signed Zuniga and numbered 111/V. Created 1965.
A Letter of Authenticity issued by the Zuniga foundation (and son Ariel Zuniga...
Category
1960s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Francisco Zuniga Bronze Sculpture, 1964, Reclining Mother with Shawl
By Francisco Zúñiga
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Zuniga bronze, edition: 3. #472 catalog raisonne:
"Madre Reclinada con Rebozo".
Measures: 5 3/4" H x 12" L x 8" W not including the wood plinth.
Signed Zuniga and dated 1964.
"Letter of Authenticity", issued by the Zuniga foundation
(and son Ariel Zuniga...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Dos Mujeres Mayas (Two Mayan Women)
By Francisco Zúñiga
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Dos Mujeres Mayas (Two Mayan Women)") 1983 is an original Mixograph cast paper bas relief by Costa Rican/Mexican artist Francisco...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Other Medium
El Niño y la Vela (“The Child and the Candle”), by Francisco Zúñiga
By Francisco Zúñiga
Located in Palm Springs, CA
El Niño y la Vela (The Child and the Candle), 1979–80
Color lithograph on wove paper
Signed and dated in pencil, lower margin; numbered from the edition of 125
Blind stamp of Kyron, ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Francisco Zuniga, "El Rebozo Blanco, " original lithograph, hand signed
By Francisco Zúñiga
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original lithograph done by Francisco Zúñiga in 1986. Francisco Zúñiga was a Costa Rican-born Mexican artist best known for his stylized figurative paintings and scu...
Category
1980s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph

