Gustavo Montoya
Muñeca, de la serie Niños Mexicanos
1993

Name: Muñeca, de la serie Niños Mexicanos
Brand: Gustavo Montoya
Price: 590 USD
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Signed with pencil. Technique: Serigraph printing Stamp measurements: 60 x 45 cms Number of inks: from 30 to 35 Paper: Biblos Guarro Español 100% cotton Edition: 500 pieces (250 + 250p -p stands for Portfolio-) + 50 P.A. Date: 1993 a 1995 Printing master: Enrique Cattaneo Editor: Leonardo Martínez Lanz This edition was produced by Mr. Bernard Lewin, founder of the Lewin family collection. The half of the collection marked with a "P" was meant to be sold in a complete series of 8. Part of the edition was sold at his gallery "Lewin Gallery" in Beverly Hills. Barefoot little Mexican girl with yellow dress sitting on a red chair holding mexican doll "lele".

Creator:

Gustavo Montoya (1905 - 2003, Mexican)

Creation Year:

1993

Dimensions:

Height: 23.63 in (60 cm)Width: 17.33 in (44 cm)

Medium:

Screen

Movement & Style:

Folk Art

Period:

1990-1999

Framing:

Framing Options Available

Condition:

Gallery Location:

Cuauhtemoc, MX

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU1621214287352

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Gustavo Montoya was born in Mexico City on July 9, 1905. At the age of 13 he studied painting at the Academia de San Carlos. Some of his teachers were: German Gedovius, Roberto Montenegro, Leandro Izaguirre, Francisco de la Torre, Mateo Herrera and Juan de Mata Pacheco, among others. He stated that the school had only taught him the technique of art, but not the spirit of it and therefore he considered himself a self-taught artist. He married his first wife, Luz Saavedra. In 1929 he traveled to Los Angeles, California, where he worked illustrating posters at the West Coast Theaters Co. The couple had a daughter, Rosa Elena Montoya Saavedra. The marriage did not last long, and Gustavo Montoya returned to Mexico in 1933. In 1936 he entered the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas (National School of Visual Arts) as teacher of the color class. He married a second time to the painter Cordelia Urueta, with whom he moved to Paris in 1938 to study European avant-garde art. He visited museums, galleries, and painters' studios. He toured Switzerland, Italy and England. In 1939, due to the Second World War, Montoya and his wife were forced to leave for New York where they remained for several years. Exhibited at the Alma Reed Gallery. When they returned to Mexico in 1942, Gustavo Montoya joined the Mexican neo-realist school movement. In 1953 he entered again as a teacher at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas. In 1965 Gustavo Montoya and Cordelia Urueta divorced after 26 years of marriage. He was lonely and did not engage in artistic circles. He was a founding member of the League of Revolutionary Writers and Artists along with Cordelia Urueta and others. Also, he was a founding member of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana. He spent most of his professional career depicting the streets of Mexico and its inhabitants. He painted still lifes, street scenes, churches, children, women, and markets in Mexico. Montoya preferred to paint the poor and working class, considering them the most authentic class in Mexico City. He liked to do his work in series around one main idea. Some of his series were: The streets of Mexico, Mexican still lifes, Mexican children, Dreams, Walls, Chess, Allegory of transformation, among others. Gustavo Montoya died on July 12, 2003 in Mexico City, at the age of 98 years.