Altitude 2000, Departure (1946)
Oil and gesso relief on panel, 30 x 48 inches, signed and dated lower right.

Provenance: Private collection, NY, c.1950-1997

Exhibited: Nierendorf Gallery, 1946
San Francisco Museum of Art, 1946
McNay Art Instititute, 1964

Literature: Life Magazine, May 1946

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While visiting Mexico in the summer of 1945, De Diego discovered a fresh type of landscape. “Each altitude gave me a definite feeling. Objects, land, people, and water have definite and mysterious meaning, which had to be treated topographically.”