Signed PEDRO CORONEL, 1923-1985 Mexico, ABSTRACT OIL PAINTING, Original Frame.

size: 12.75x8. ASKart: Pedro Coronel (1923 - 1985) was active/lived in Mexico. Pedro Coronel is known for Painting and sculpture. Born in 1923 in Zacatecas, Pedro Coronel was a painter, sculptor, draftsman, and engraver. He studied painting and sculpture at La Academia Esmeralda from 1940 to 1945 under Juan Cruz, Francisco Zúñiga, and Santos Balmori, where he later became a teacher. In 1946, Coronel went to Paris, where he attended workshops directed by the painter Victor Brauner and the sculptor Constantin Brancusi. His first individual exhibition was in the Galería Proteo in 1954 and he later exhibited in France, Italy, Japan, the United States, and Brazil. Coronel was awarded the National Prize for Plastic Arts the year before his death in 1985. A retrospective was held at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City in 2005.