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AMELIA PALAEZ Cuban 1896-1968 Gouache Paper

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AMELIA PALAEZ Cuban 1896-1968 Gouache Paper
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Gouache on paper, framed. Featuring a cubist portrait of a woman. Signed and attr. Amelia Palaez (Cuban, 1896-1968) on the lower right corner. 41 x 30 cm (framed 76 x 65 cm) (16 x 11.8 in). Amelia Peláez was a Cuban painter, best known for her graphic, colorful avant-garde paintings. Her work explores Cuban cultural iconography and history with a Modernist, representational aesthetic. Born on January 5, 1896 in Yaguajay, Cuba, Peláez studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro, graduating in 1924 and exhibiting her work in regional spaces. She later received a government grant to study abroad, and went on to attend classes at the Art Students' League in New York and the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where she met Russian constructivist painter Alexandra Exter. Peláez's prolific life and career is characterized by critical acclaim and professional achievement, including a prize from the Cuban National Exposition of Painters and Sculptors in 1938, and her participation in both the 1952 Venice Biennale and the 1951 and 1957 São Paulo Art Biennial in Brazil. The artist died on April 8, 1968 in Havana, Cuba, and is considered among the most prominent Cuban Modernists. PROVENANCE: Southern Ontario estate