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San Antonio Museum of Art, Gift of Peter P. Cecere.

Boxing Match

San Antonio Museum of Art, Gift of Peter P. Cecere.
San Antonio Museum of Art, Gift of Peter P. Cecere.
Contact San Antonio Museum of Art, Registrar Department for rights and reproduction of this image. Photography by Peggy Tenison.

Boxing Match

Artist:
Place made:Ecuador
Date: mid- 20th century
Medium: Painted wood
Dimensions:
h. 13 3/4 in. (34.9 cm); w. 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm); diam. 5 in. (12.7 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, Gift of Peter P. Cecere
Object number: 2006.1.289.a-b
Label Text
Boxing has been a popular national sport in Ecuador since the 1920s. Ecuadorian boxing experienced its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, around the time this sculpture was made. Here we see a Black and white boxer mid-fight, with the Black boxer about to throw a right cross at his opponent.

El boxeo ha sido un deporte popular en Ecuador desde la década de 1920. El boxeo ecuatoriano tuvo su apogeo durante las décadas de 1950 y 1960. Fue en esta época que se realizó esta escultura. La obra representa a un boxeador negro y un boxeador blanco en plena pelea, con el boxeador negro a punto de lanzar un derechazo a su oponente. El cabello, los rostros y la musculatura de los boxeadores se tallaron con una precisión que indica la tremenda habilidad del escultor anónimo.

(LA, 2022)
On view


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