Navagante (The Navigator)
Artist:
Enrique Zavala Aguilar
(Mexican, born 1936)
Date: 1990
Medium: Bronze
Dimensions:
h. 30 5/16 in. (77 cm); w. 9 1/2 in. (24.1 cm)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by the Ewing Halsell Foundation
Object number: 94.20
Label Text
Enrique Zavala Aguilar was born in Jalisco, Mexico in 1936. He studied under painter Luis E. Jurado and printmaker Ikio Fukashawa, and at the Pratt Institute in New York. He has participated in numerous exhibitions in the United States, Mexico and France. This bronze sculpture titled, "The Navigator" uses abstract forms that resemble a boat sailing over wave-like shapes. The triangle emerging from the top of the composition may refer to the navigator's sextant, a device used for locating celestial bodies.
(Marion Oettinger, 1998; ed. LA, 2021)
(Marion Oettinger, 1998; ed. LA, 2021)
Not on view
In Collection(s)
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