The Fisherman, Santa Marta, 1950, 2025. Black and white photography

Leo Matiz

The Fisherman, Santa Marta, 1950, 2025

Print on Moab Juniper Baryta Rag 305gr Paper

Dimensions: 16.5 H x 14.1 W in.

Edition of 20

Unframed

Print comes with a 0.3 in. white border

Printed later by the Leo Matiz Estate

Matiz was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in Garcia Márquez's Macondo, in 1917. His photography witnessed the most significant events in our history. Matiz also had important contributions in the fields of advertising, cinema, caricature, and the art market, the latter by founding the first art gallery in Bogotá, in which the work of Fernando Botero was exhibited for the first time. Matiz lived many years in Mexico in a period of incomparable intensity and enthusiasm. The photographer Matiz has been internationally recognized and was decorated by the French government as "Chevalier des Arts et des Letters" in 1995. He also received the "Filo D'Argento Award" in Florence, Italy, and the government of Colombia paid tribute to him in 1988. Matiz died in 1998, but his work will endure for posterity. The work of Leo Matiz is exhibited at the MoMA in New York.