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Gabriel García Márquez 1927–2014
One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, Gabriel García Márquez was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 and is widely recognized for his mastery of fiction. Born and raised in Colombia, he studied law before embarking on a career in journalism and traveling internationally as a correspondent. He penned his best known novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), after settling in Mexico City, and then went on to write other classics, such as Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). García Márquez spent lengthy periods of time in Spain, France, and Cuba, and all the while, he published extensively. He embraced several genres but is most often associated with magic realism, which fuses realistic settings with fantasy.
Ian and Annette Cumming commissioned this painting as one of a triad of portraits of great South American writers; the others depict Mario Vargas Llosa, a Peruvian writer and politician; and Carlos Fuentes, a Mexican author.
Robert McCurdy (born 1952)
Oil on canvas, 2007
The Cumming Collection |