(b. Trujillo, Peru, 1937).
The younger brother of the painter Angel Chávez, Gerardo Chávez attended the Academia de Bellas Artes in Lima. He studied the old masters while on a grant in Europe, and exhibited his work for the first time in Florence in 1962. Meetings with Matta and Lam as well as his readings of Symbolist and Surrealist literature greatly influenced his work. Along with Tilsa Tsuchiya (1932-1984, Alberto Quintanilla (b. 1934) and Carlos Revilla (b. 1940), Chávez was part of a group of Peruvian painters who recreated Surrealism in their work during the 1970's, helping to usher in a return to figuration in Peruvian painting that suggested connections to the old European masters. Sources:
Edward J. Sullivan, ed. Latin American Art in the Twentieth Century. London: Phaidon Press, 1996. pgs. 198 - 199.
Susan Theran, Leonard’s Price Index of Latin American Art at Auction, Newton: Auction Index Inc., 1999. pg. 48.
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