Maria Izquierdo (Mexican Pencil on paper 11 x 14"Certificate of Authenticity issue by Laboratorio de Diagnostico de obras de arte (UNAM) YEAR 1999 Title Naturaleza Muerta. María Izquierdo (October 30, 1902, San Juan de los Lagos – December 2,[1] 1955, Mexico City) was a Mexican painter.[2] She was born María Cenobia Izquierdo Gutiérrez in San Juan de los Lagos in the state of Jalisco;.[2] After her father died, when she was five years old, she lived with her grandparents and aunt afterward in small towns of Aguascalientes, Torreón, and Saltillo. Both her grandmother and aunt were devout Catholics and much of her upbringing revolved around daily Catholic traditions.[3] At age fourteen she had an arranged marriage to a senior army officer, Colonel Cándido Posadas,[3] and bore three children by the time she was 17 years old.[2] In 1920 she and her family moved to Mexico City from San Juan de los Lagos where she first began to develop into a professional artist.

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