Pedro Friedeberg (Born 1936) Mexican, Original Serigraph "Ciudad de un Millón con 25 Huevos Duros." Translated as "City of a Million with 25 Hard-Boiled Eggs," this is one of his most famous works. Signed in pencil bottom right. Numbered XXIV/L in pencil bottom left, next to the Authentication Stamp from the artist. Framed with a gold and black checkered border. 

Overall Size: 34 3/4 x 34 3/4 in. 

Sight Size: 29 x 29 in. 

Pedro Friedeberg is an Italian-born Mexican painter, sculptor, and designer celebrated for his eccentric Surrealist art and irreverent humor. Born to German-Jewish parents in Florence in 1936, he fled Europe as a child to settle in Mexico City, where he later studied architecture before dedicating himself entirely to fine art. Encouraged by prominent mentors like artist Mathias Goeritz and Surrealist painter Remedios Varo, Friedeberg joined Los Hartos, an avant-garde group that rejected functionalism and bourgeois artistic conventions. He achieved global acclaim for his iconic 1962 “Hand-Chair,” a whimsical carved wooden seat shaped like an open human hand, which epitomizes his signature blend of Op Art geometric patterns, ancient symbolism, and architectural absurdity. Remaining a vital figure in contemporary Latin American art, his prolific body of work bridges functional design with fantastical, mind-bending visual environments.

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