Accession Number
1950/1.174

Title
City Dwellers

Artist(s)
Nemesio Antúnez

Artist Nationality
Chilean

Object Creation Date
1949

Medium & Support
softground etching on paper

Dimensions
14 15/16 in x 17 5/8 in (37.94 cm x 44.77 cm);14 15/16 in x 17 5/8 in (37.94 cm x 44.77 cm);22 1/16 in x 28 1/8 in (56.04 cm x 71.44 cm);18 13/16 in x 21 9/16 in (47.78 cm x 54.77 cm)

Credit Line
Museum Purchase

Subject matter
This print shows a mass of figures, clearly human but abstracted and more fluid, crowded together in a confined space. On the right, some figures seem to be climbing the wall. Antúnez studied engraving in Stanley William Hayter's workshop (Atelier 17 in Paris) from 1947-1952; it seems that this print was created during that period. Antúnez titled at least one other print, from 1950, City Dwellers as well. His 1978 exhibition at Genesis Galleries Ltd., in Santiago, Chile, was also named City Dwellers. 

Antúnez was a prominent Chilean artist, and exhibited throughout Latin America, and around the world. In 1955, he founded Workshop 99 in Chile and helped found the School of Arts of the Catholic University of Chile in 1959. Later, he served as the director of Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Chile, and as a Cultural Attaché of Chile in the United States

Physical Description
This is a black and white print of abstracted human figures gathered in a group.  Several of the figures lay on the ground.

Primary Object Classification
Print

Primary Object Type
intaglio print

Collection Area
Modern and Contemporary

Rights
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Abstract (fine arts style)
Chilean
artists' proofs
city
figures (representations)
modern and contemporary art
outlines (linear form)