ALICE RAHON "Los gnomos, Leprechauns" painting canvas not oil printed on canvas

ALICE RAHON "Los gnomos, Leprechauns" painting canvas not oil printed on canvas

ALICE RAHON (1904 – 1987)

Ready to be hang on the wall. Canvas on the wooden underframe.

Medium: printed on canvas panel

Diagonal: 30,7" or 78,1 cm.

Size: 23,6" x 19,7" (in) or 60 x 50 cm.

Date: c. 1951. w / C. of Attribution.

Please note that this is a reproduction printed on canvas.

The size may differ from how it looks in the photo.

Color can be slightly different from the picture.

Alice Phillipot (Alice Rahon) was a French/Mexican poet and artist whose work contributed to the beginning of abstract expression in Mexico. She began as a surrealist poet in Europe but began painting in Mexico. She was a prolific artist from the late 1940s to the 1960s, exhibiting frequently in Mexico and the United States, with a wide circle of friends in these two countries. Her work remained tied to surrealism but was also innovative, including abstract elements and the use of techniques such as sgraffito and the use of sand for texture. She became isolated in her later life due to health issues, and except for retrospectives at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in 1986 and at the Museo de Arte Moderno in 2009 and 2014, she has been largely forgotten, despite her influence on Mexican modern art. While surrealist, her work also demonstrates the beginning of abstract art in Mexico in the 1940s, along with Carlos Mérida, Gunther Gerzso and Wolfgang Paalen. She was also a pioneer in the use of sand, sgraffito and other textures on her canvases. By 1987, she could no longer take care of herself in her home and was placed in a nursing home. Refusing food, she died four months later in September 1987.

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