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Mabel Alvarez Watercolor: Egypt c 1930 #1788205

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Mabel Alvarez Watercolor:  Egypt c 1930 #1788205
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About 12 years ago, I bought this charming Art Deco watercolor painting in England and simply enjoyed it, never bothering with research until recently. Now, having visited a number of websites devoted to early California Modernist painter Mabel Alvarez (1891-1985), I'm convinced she was the artist. While the signature isn't typical of that on her later works, it looks just like one on a portrait she did of a child in the same period (when she's known to have traveled abroad). <BR><BR>Quite prominent even during her lifetime, Alvarez was the subject of a solo exhibition in 1941 at the Los Angeles Museum. Recently two major shows traced her distinguished career: "Mabel Alvarez: A Retrospective" at the Orange County Museum of Art and "A Radiant Thread: Paintings by Mabel Alvarez" at the Adamson-Duvannes Galleries. Her larger works in oil now fetch enormous sums, having been collected avidly by Hollywood celebrities for decades. Here's an unusual opportunity to acquire a lovely small Alvarez at a very affordable price. <BR><BR>Evidently from her red/yellow/blue period, our painting features no other colors and the dating is right. She wrote about this endeavor in 1928: "My idea of painting is so different now ... With Bill [Cahill] we learned to paint in the Impressionistic manner with broken color. We were never allowed to use black. As I remember he limited us at that time to red, yellow and blue. I struggled for months with the "direct method' a most difficult process ... I gradually ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Excellent</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:Circa 1930</td></tr>






<tr><td>Title:Mabel Alvarez Watercolor: Egypt c 1930</td></tr>
<tr><td>Style:Art Deco</td></tr>


<tr><td>Location:Albuquerque, NM</td></tr>
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