Desnudo

© Rafael Ferrer/VAGA for ARS, New York, NY, New York, NY. Photograph and digital image © Delawa…
© Rafael Ferrer/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.
Desnudo
© Rafael Ferrer/VAGA for ARS, New York, NY, New York, NY. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or publication.

Desnudo

Date1981
Artist (Puerto Rican painter, sculptor, and installation artist, born 1933)
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions29 7/8 × 20 1/8 in. (75.9 × 51.1 cm)
frame: 30 1/8 × 20 7/8 in. (76.5 × 53 cm)
Credit LineGift of Nancy Hoffman, 1995
Object number1995-18
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextRafael Ferrer’s earliest works combine Process Art with minimal and conceptual art practices. Beginning in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Ferrer began to explore figurative painting focused on life in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. The paintings, such as Desnudo, combine generalized human forms with expressionistic colors and backgrounds.