Amelia (y del Casal) Pelaez ART FOR SALE

1896 Yaguajay, Cuba - 1968 Havana, Cuba. Known for: Avant-garde, abstract painting.

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Amelia Peláez del Casal (5 January 1896 - 8 April 1968) was an important Cuban painter of the avant-garde generation. Amelia was born in 1896 in Yaguajay, in the former Cuban province of Las Villas (now Sancti Spíritus Province). In 1915, her family moved to Havana, to the La Víbora district, and this gave her the opportunity to enter the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes "San Alejandro" at the rather late age of 20 years (students at this academy usually start at 12-13 years of age). She was among Leopoldo Romañach's favourite students. By 1924, she exposed her paintings for the first time, along with another Cuban female painter, María Pepa Lamarque. She transferred to Europe in 1927, and established herself in Paris, although she paid... Read full biography

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still life

Type:Painting

Year:1961

Size:27.00" x 23.00"

Medium:Oil

Signed:Signed and Dated

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Price: $10,000. Please contact Art-Torg Auctions

Naturaleza Muerta con Peces

Type:Painting

Year:1962

Size:25.00" x 18.00"

Medium:Gouache

Signed:Signed and Dated

Edition:1962

Notes:

Amelia Peláez's 1962 gouache on paper, Naturaleza Muerta con Peces, exemplifies her mature Cuban modernist style: a stylized ceramic vessel with two fish rendered in bold black contours and luminous bands of rose, golden yellow and soft blue, echoing Cuba's colonial decorative heritage.

Price: Please contact Del Amo Art Gallery