Pedro Friedeberg - Mexican / Latin American b1936 - Surrealist Cats Acrylic and Ink Painting on Artist Paper. Signed and Dated 1976. 12" x 15.25". 14: x 20" Matted. Friedeberg became part of a group of surrealist artists in Mexico which included Leonora Carrington and Alice Rahon, who were irreverent, rejecting the social and political art which was dominant at the time. Friedeberg has had a lifelong reputation for being eccentric. His works can be found in the permanent collections of the Museo de Arte Moderno, José Luis Cuevas Museum, Televisa Cultural Center, all in Mexico City, Museum of Contemporary Art in Toluca, Museum of Contemporary Art in Culiacán, Museum of Contemporary Art in Pátzcuaro, Museum of Modern Art in New York, Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art in New Orleans, Library of Congress in Washington DC, Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University in Boston, National Research Library in Ottawa, Musée du Louvre in Paris, Israel Museum in Jerusalem, National Museum of Modern Art in Baghdad, Ponce Museum of Art in Puerto Rico, Franklin Rawson Museum in Argentina, Omar Rayo Museum in Colombia, Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, Museum of Arts and Design in New York. Provenance: From an Important New York Collection.