Lot 53: Guillermo Muñoz Vera (Chilean B. 1956)

Mar de Antofagasta
signed and dated 'MV 03' (lower right)
oil on canvas laid down on board
64 x 98 1/2 in. (163 x 250 cm.)
Painted in 2003.

Private collection, Madrid.

Mar de Antofagasta is a preparatory oil for the mural project, at the Santiago de Chile metro entitled CHILE HOY, which the artist has been preparing for more than two years. This enterprise consists of 14 mural paintings for the walls of La Moneda Station, comprising 180 square meters of painted surface, that depict all aspects of the Chilean countryside and its inhabitants, from the Atacama Desert to the Patagonia and from the Andes mountains to the Pacific coast. The finished murals will be inaugurated in Santiago, Chile in September 2005. In the present painting Muñoz Vera is representing a view of the Pacific Ocean near the city of Antofagasta in the north of the country.