Acquired directly from the artist
Collection of Luis Amado Blanco, Havana
Private Collection, Los Angeles
Havana, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Amelia Peláez - Exposición Retrospectiva, November 14, 1968
Amelia Peláez - Exposición Retrospectiva, exh. cat., Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, 1968, no. 58
A.G. Alonso, ed., Pintores Cubanos - Amelia Peláez, Havana, 1998, p. 5 (illustrated)
Please note that this work has been requested to be included in the exhibition catalogue of, Diálogos constructivistas en la vanguardia cubana: Amelia Peláez, Loló Soldeviilla and Zilia Sánchez, that will be held at Galerie Lelong, April 28 – June 25, 2016.
Cuban • 1896 - 1968
Amelia Peláez, one of the most prominent Cuban avant-garde artists, studied at the Academia de San Alejandro in Havana. She was part of the first wave of Cuban artists living in Europe before World War II. In Paris, she witnessed the development of Cubism as well as other European art movements that would later inform her complex personal aesthetic of simplified forms and bold colors.
With the decline of the sugar boom, Peláez returned to Cuba and laid the foundation for Cuban modernism by introducing artistic innovations. Her mature works are composed of brightly hued, quasi-abstract compositions that often depict unique domestic and architectural settings. Peláez was undeniably inspired by her surroundings in Cuba, where she continued to live until her death.
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