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Excerpted from Reminiscences, by Frances Stillman, 1988

It was in the summer of 1963 that Ary gave up gouaches for the most part and embarked on a series of exciting canvases, which he called "Leyendas" (Legends). They had marvelous movement and each represented a world of fantasy —a pagan world, but permeated with glimpses of Egyptian, Byzantine, Coptic, Italian — every kind of culture, which had intrigued him during his lifetime. Manny Greer of the Greer Galleries in New York came down to Mexico that summer and paid a visit to Ary and his wife, Frances. He was wildly enthusiastic about the new canvases. He said he had been combing the studios of Mexican painters and here, in the studio of a veteran American painter, he found the essence of pre-Columbian Mexico that the others lacked. But Ary was adamant about not exhibiting. He had strength only to paint, he said. To be involved in exhibiting would drain too much of the precious store of energy.

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Archaic (Biblical Legend) His Royal Highness the Inca No.2 Indian Dance
Archaic (Biblical Legend)
1963
acrylic on canvas
16 x 21 1/2
His Royal Highness
the Inca No.2

1963
acrylic on canvas
14 x 22
Indian Dance
1963
acrylic on canvas
16 x 20

Black Magic Hommage to Goya Unnamed
Black Magic
1963
acrylic on canvas
11 x 22
Homage to Goya
1963
acrylic on canvas
16 x 20
Unnamed
1963
acrylic on canvas
16 x 22

Design in Brilliant Colors Three Figures with Grey Background Emblems
Design in Brilliant Colors
1963
acrylic on canvas
15 1/2 x 20

Three Figures with
Gray Background

1963
acrylic on canvas
16 x 20

Emblems
1963
acrylic on canvas
14 1/2 x 19 1/2

The Royal Potentate Composition in Black and Red Colorful Cutouts on Gray Background
The Royal Potentate
1963
acrylic on canvas
14 1/2 x 17 1/2
Composition in
Black and Red

1963
acrylic on canvas
20 x 15 1/2
Colorful Cutouts
on Gray Background

1963
acrylic on canvas

Unnamed Man and Woman Unnamed

Unnamed
1963
acrylic on canvas
16 x 20

Man and Woman
1963
acrylic on canvas
13 1/2 x 20
Unnamed
c. 1960s
acrylic on canvas
17 x 21 1/2

Figures on Brown Background Exotic Design In Persian Spirit
Figures on Brown
Background

c. 1960s
acrylic on canvas
17 1/2 x 21 1/2
Exotic Design
c. 1960s
acrylic on canvas
16 x 20
In Persian Spirit
c. 1960s
acrylic on canvas
14 x 18

Unnamed Unnamed Guadalajara
Unnamed
c. 1960s
acrylic on canvas
15 x 20
Unnamed
c. 1960s
acrylic on canvas
16 1/2 x 20
Guadalajara
1964
acrylic on canvas
14 x 20

Fantasy (Black Magic #2) Orientale Del Parque #1
Fantasy
(Black Magic #2)

c. 1960s
acrylic on canvas
10 x 21
Orientale
1965
acrylic on canvas
16 x 20
Del Parque #1
1965
acrylic on canvas
14 x 21

Del Parque #2 Unnamed Pagan Rites
Del Parque #2
1965
acrylic on canvas
14 x 21
Unnamed
1965
acrylic on canvas
16 x 22
Pagan Rites
c. 1960s
acrylic on canvas
16 x 20

Figures on Gray Background Unnamed Unnamed
Figures on Gray Background
c. 1960s
acrylic on canvas
16 x 20
Unnamed
c. 1960s
acrylic on canvas
16 x 19
Unnamed
c. 1960s
acrylic on canvas
16 x 20

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