Lolo Soldevilla appears in Lower Right Attribute to Lolo Soldevilla Technique: Mixed midea Measures: 11 X 9 inches Image size Medium: paper. Provenance: Private Collection. Born in 1901 in Havana, Cuba, Soldevilla was an avid painter, sculptor, collage artist and draughtsman. She began painting in 1948, and in 1949 traveled to Paris as Cuba's cultural attached, something which allowed her to travel extensively throughout Europe and Latin America, influencing her art style and career immensely. In Paris, she was influenced by the European avant-garde, most notably abstraction. In 1956, Soldevilla along with her husband and fellow artist Pedro de Oraá, returned to Cuba and founded Galeria Color-Luz, an artistic space solely focused on the promotion of abstract art.Oraá and Lolo, along with Romanian-born artist Sandu Darie among others, were the pioneers of Concretism or Cuban Abstraction in 1950s Cuba, as well as the founders of the group Los Diez Pintores Concretos (The 10 concrete painters) or known simply as Los Diez (the ten).

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