You are bidding on "Corte de Cafe" a framed original oil painting on canvas by Victor Vasquez painted in 1998. The frame is a wide black leather with white linen border matte.  Size: 32" x 44 1/2"

About the artist:  (1) Victor Vasquez Temo is a self-taught artist. Victor had always wanted to paint but his family was too poor to provide materials. He finished six grades of school and at age fourteen began drawing with pen and pencil; when his father died he could not go further because of his obligation to take over as head of the family. In 1992, Joseph Johnston, guest curator for this exhibition, and Vicente Cumes, a San Pedro wood carver, saw Victor's rough drawings, provided him with painting materials and showed him how to stretch a canvas. Victor felt unsure of himself but was persuaded to develop on his own without the aid of a teacher. His exuberance spills over into his paintings, which are crammed with lively people and luxuriant plants. He is the only Tz'utuhil artist to let the modern world intrude upon the traditional through the trucks and buses which appear naturally in his paintings.

Victor no longer paints, and instead returned to campesino life growing corn and coffee. He lives a stable happy life with his wife, two children, and five dogs in San Juan la Laguna. Who knows, perhaps the coffee you are drinking come from the beans he has grown!

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