JOSE LUIS CUEVAS MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER V$18,000
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MEASUREMENTS:15"WX12"H FRAMED/GOOD/OK CONDITION, SMALL TEAR NEAR TOP/"in the style of" José Luis Cuevas was a Mexican artist and was one of the first to challenge the then dominant Mexican muralism movement as a prominent member of the Generación de la Ruptura. Within a career that spanned over seventy years, Cuevas was a painter, writer, draftsman, engraver, illustrator and printmaker. There have been solo exhibitions od Cuevas' work in museums and galleries throughout the world. His first exhibition was when he was only fourteen at the Seminario Axiologico but no one came, the works came off the walls and were stepped on.His first successful individual exhibition was at Mexico City’s GalerÃa Prisse in 1953, when he was nineteen. In 1954, he exhibited in Mérida and at the Panamerican Union in Washington, DC. His first U.S. exhibition resulted in interviews with Time and the Washington Post, which called him a “golden boy,” opening doors and helping to sell his paintings. In 1955, he participated in the first Salón de Arte Libre organized by GalerÃa Proteo, where he met David Alfaro Siqueiros. During the rest of the 1950s, he exhibited in Havana, Caracas, Lima and Buenos Aires, where he met Jorge Luis Borges/Private collection, no documentation. We offer a 14day money back guarantee if you are not satisfied with your purchase send back for full refund within 14 days.
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JOSE LUIS CUEVAS MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER V$18,000
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