Erró 'Untitled'

Artist:  ErróTitle: UntitledSize: 76.5 x 52 InchesMedium: Acrylic on CanvasEdition:  Original  Year:  1998Notes: Signed on Verso. Excellent Condition. Custom Framed About: Born 1932 Gudmundur Gudmundsson, in Olafsvik, Iceland. Lives and works in Paris, France.  Erró was one of the radical artists of the late 1950s to early 1960s on the Paris art scene to commit to a newly figurative painting, critical of its socio-political context. After he left Reykjavik to study in Oslo and Florence, Erró settled in Paris in 1958, taking part from 1961 in new figuration exhibitions alongside Gérard Fromanger, Jacques Monory, Bernard Rancillac, Valerio Adami and Peter Klasen, among others. He notably participated in one of narrative figuration’s seminal exhibitions, at Galerie Creuze in 1965. Seeking a de-mythologisation of everyday life in consumer society, Erró and his fellow artists manifested the power structures that constituted these myths by drawing awareness to the procedures behind image-mak