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EL CONDOR PASA -Abstract Etching with Aquatint -1970's-Signed & Numbered -315 -Claudio Juárez

$450.00

Claudio Juárez (1938–2001) was a Peruvian-born painter and master printmaker whose career bridged Lima, Paris, and New York. Educated at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Lima and a fellow in Rio de Janeiro and Paris (where he worked with Stanley William Hayter), Juárez settled in New York in 1969. Over four decades he produced more than 7,000 prints, distinguished by their finely graded colours, textured surfaces, and a synthesis of modernist abstraction with Latin-American cultural motifs. His works are held in major international collections including the V&A, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and El Museo del Barrio in New York.

Claudio Juárez’s El Cóndor Pasa distills motion, music, and myth into a strikingly simple yet resonant composition. Against the textured, natural surface of handmade paper, a deep maroon abstract form—suggestive of a condor in repose or flight—rests before a radiant, striped sun that transitions from crimson to gold. The horizontal bands evoke both the rhythmic flow of Andean landscapes and the melodic lines of the famous Peruvian folk song from which the work takes its title.

Juárez’s restrained palette and organic shapes create a contemplative balance between earth and sky, sound and silence. The handmade paper adds a tactile, almost spiritual quality, grounding the work in natural materiality while its geometry and color pulse with modernist abstraction.

10h x 8w

Claudio Juárez (1938–2001) was a Peruvian-born painter and master printmaker whose career bridged Lima, Paris, and New York. Educated at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Lima and a fellow in Rio de Janeiro and Paris (where he worked with Stanley William Hayter), Juárez settled in New York in 1969. Over four decades he produced more than 7,000 prints, distinguished by their finely graded colours, textured surfaces, and a synthesis of modernist abstraction with Latin-American cultural motifs. His works are held in major international collections including the V&A, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and El Museo del Barrio in New York.

Claudio Juárez’s El Cóndor Pasa distills motion, music, and myth into a strikingly simple yet resonant composition. Against the textured, natural surface of handmade paper, a deep maroon abstract form—suggestive of a condor in repose or flight—rests before a radiant, striped sun that transitions from crimson to gold. The horizontal bands evoke both the rhythmic flow of Andean landscapes and the melodic lines of the famous Peruvian folk song from which the work takes its title.

Juárez’s restrained palette and organic shapes create a contemplative balance between earth and sky, sound and silence. The handmade paper adds a tactile, almost spiritual quality, grounding the work in natural materiality while its geometry and color pulse with modernist abstraction.

10h x 8w

Biography and Artistic Journey

  • Claudio Juárez was born in 1938 in Ayacucho, Peru, and died in 2001 in New York.

  • He studied painting and printmaking at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes de Lima in Lima.

  • In 1960 he was awarded a fellowship to study at the Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.

  • A year later, he received a scholarship from the Gulbenkian Foundation (Galouste Gulbenkian Foundation) which enabled travel to Paris; there he taught and worked alongside the print-studio master Stanley William Hayter.

  • Juárez travelled, taught and worked across Spain, Portugal, Norway and Denmark, before finally settling in New York in 1969.

Work and Style

  • Juárez was especially recognised as a master printer: over his career he created more than 7,000 prints, working in techniques such as etching, aquatint, varying reliefs, texture, powdered resins and finely graded colour.

  • His print works often sit at the boundary between figuration and abstraction; they display technical virtuosity and a refined sense of colour and surface.

  • Although trained in painting and printmaking, his output seems to emphasise print editions, series, and experimentation with material.

Exhibitions & Collections

  • Juárez exhibited widely: cities listed include Lima, Rio de Janeiro, Caracas, Havana, São Paulo, Santiago, San Juan, Madrid, Segovia, Buenos Aires, Ibiza, Lisbon, Cracow, Venice, Florence, New York, Miami, Washington DC, Chicago, Montreal, Ottawa, Honolulu, Lugano, Geneva, Oslo, Copenhagen.

  • His works are held in major public collections, including the Victoria & Albert Museum (London), the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the National Museum of Art (Toronto), the New York Public Library, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Museo del Barrio (New York) and others.

Significance & Interpretation

  • Juárez occupies a space where the Latin-American printmaking tradition meets international modernist printing studios (via his time with Hayter) and the New York art world.

  • The combination of his Peruvian heritage (born in Ayacucho, trained in Lima) and global training/travel suggests a bridging of indigenous/Latin American referencing with high-craft print technique and abstraction.

  • His work, by virtue of massive print output, and the multiple countries of exhibition, suggests a focus on dissemination and accessibility of print as medium—not simply unique paintings—but editions that could carry his visual ideas broadly.

  • “El Cóndor Pasa” uses handmade paper, a sun motif, and an abstract figure reminiscent of flight/condor imagery, one can see how Juárez synthesises symbolic Latin-American/Andean reference (the condor) with minimalist/abstract form and print/graphic sensibility.

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