Gunther Gerzso

Private Collection, New York (acquired from the artist and sold: Sotheby's, New York, November 20, 2001, lot 35)

Acquired at the above sale

Rita Eder, Gunther Gerzso: El esplendor de la muralla, Mexico City, 1994, illustration of another cast in color p. 108

New York, Mary-Anne Martin Fine Art, Gunther Gerzso, 80th Birthday Show, 1995, no. 30, illustrated in color in the catalogue

Yaxchilán, a Maya word that means "place of green stones," was one of the great religious centers of the Classic Maya period. The patina on this sculpture, painstakingly applied by hand, echoes the heavy encrustation of time on man's ancient monuments.