Don Quijote y Sancho Panza
Artist
Augusto Marín
(Puerto Rican, 1921-2011)
Date1960
Object number61.0218
Mediumoil on cardboard mounted on Masonite
Dimensions48 x 72 in. (121.9 x 182.9 cm)
frame: 55 1/8 x 79 x 3 3/4 in. (140 x 200.7 x 9.5 cm)
frame: 55 1/8 x 79 x 3 3/4 in. (140 x 200.7 x 9.5 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineMuseo de Arte de Ponce. The Luis A. Ferré Foundation, Inc.
Collections
DescriptionThis scene alludes to the famous windmill episode in Cervantes’ classic “El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha” (1605). The gaunt figure of Don Quixote, his horse, Rocinante, and his squire, Sancho Panza, dominate the foreground while the windmills and blades fill the rest of the composition. Marín establishes a carefully balanced grid of geometric forms and schematic designs that evoke, for instance, the horse’s muscle structure. The characteristic segmentation of Marín’s work during this period resembles the appearance of polychrome stained glass, an art he learned in the workshop of Arnaldo Maas between 1961 and 1964.
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