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Eliana Menasse
El Balcon, Courting Couple Mexican Modernist Oil Painting

1968

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El Balcon, the courting couple flirting over the balcony railing ala Romeo and Juliet. Eliana Menassé is a Mexican painter and member of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana, an honor society for Mexican artists She was born in New York, but lived in Mexico since she was two years old and considers herself Mexican. As of 2015 she lived and worked at her Mexico City apartment overlooking Parque México. She has been painting for over half a century and has held twenty five individual exhibitions since 1958. These include Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (2010), Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición (Hospital de Nutrición) (2008). Galería Alberto Misrachi (1995, 2001, 2006), a retrospective at the Galería Alba de la Canal, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa (2003), a retrospective at the Casa del Tiempo UAM (2001), a retrospective at the Museo de Arte de Aguascalientes (1997), Expo 4 Pintores, Sala Nacional INBA (1989), Galería “El Granero”, Torreón, Coahuila (1981), Galería Francisca Díaz (1980), Galería Merkup (1968, 1970 y 1972), Gallery of the Los Angeles Mart, Los Angeles, CA (1967), Steven Laurence Gallery, Detroit,MI (1967), Salón de la Plástica Mexicana (1963, 1966, 1975), Instituto Francés de América Latina (1962) and the Galería Tuso (1958). She has participated in over 250 collective exhibitions in various parts of Mexico as well as in the United States, the Netherlands, Germany, Japan and other countries. Her work can be found in the collections of the Ghetto Fighters' House in Israel, Bell Telephone Co. Museum in Chicago, Musée Beitar et Rami in Israel, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Morelia, Centro Cultural de Oaxaca, Museo del Estado de México, Toluca, Mexican Engraving Museum in Bulgaria, Colección Gráfica de la UNAM, México the General Motors Collection, The B. Lewin Collection of Mexican Art, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museo de Arte de Aguascalientes, Colección Pago en Especie SHCP, Colección Instituto Nacional de Nutrición and the Acervo Cultural El Agora, Xalapa. She was a Jewish Mexican artist a group that includes Arnold Belkin, Leonardo Nierman, Alfredo Zalce and Fanny Rabel. She has been included in about fifty publications such as Expresionismo Mexicano, Margarita Nelken, 15 Pintores y Escultores (Introduction by M. Nelken), Paisaje de México, STC Imagen de México, 28 Artistas, Edición Espiral, S.A., Grabadores de México, Olympic Catalog Salón de la Plástica Mexicana, Enciclopedia de México, 50 Años de Pintura Mexicana, Presencia del Salón de la Plástica Mexicana, Mujeres de México, Artístas Plásticos, México (CUTT GDA Edition), La Mujer en la Ciudad and El Grabado Mexicano en el Siglo XX. She lives both ancient and modern art. Images in her works include landscapes, children, houses, musicians and lovers. Her early work was more expressionist and some of it refers to her Holocaust, because of her Jewish ancestry.
  • Creator:
    Eliana Menasse (1930, American)
  • Creation Year:
    1968
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 26 in (66.04 cm)Width: 22 in (55.88 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
    size includes frame. frame has minor wear commensurate with age and use.
  • Gallery Location:
    Surfside, FL
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU38212687882

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