José Luis Cuevas Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
José Luis Cuevas was a Mexican painter, draftsman, writer, engraver, sculptor and illustrator. Although the biography on his personal site indicates the date of 1934, his older brother, the doctor and psychoanalyst Alberto Cuevas Novelo, has assured that he was actually born in the year 1931. He was known as the "terrible boy" of painting in Mexico, and also had the nickname of Gato Macho. From his first exhibition in Washington in 1954, when he was only 20 years old and from the Washington Post and Time Magazine, he learned to exploit his public image as a macho, seducer of women, and an artist without hair on the tongue. An extraordinary sense of vanity and narcissism led him to photograph himself day after day since 1955. He challenged the Mexican mural movement that dominated at that time and was a prominent member of the Rupture Generation. He was a self-taught artist, with many very marked styles and influences on the dark side of his life, and he frequently distorted figures and generated debates. He was a very controversial character, not only for artistic reasons, but also for his controversies with other writers and artists. In 1992, the José Luis Cuevas Museum was inaugurated, which houses many of his works and his personal art collection in the Historic Center of Mexico City.
Late 20th Century Contemporary José Luis Cuevas Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Mixed Media
Mid-20th Century Post-War José Luis Cuevas Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Mixed Media, Paper
Mid-20th Century Feminist José Luis Cuevas Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Mixed Media
1970s Modern José Luis Cuevas Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor
1960s Feminist José Luis Cuevas Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Mixed Media
20th Century American Impressionist José Luis Cuevas Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor
2010s Contemporary José Luis Cuevas Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Charcoal, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Josh Hernandezcontemporary figurative black and white charcoal drawing pop art interior female, 2025
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary José Luis Cuevas Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Charcoal, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor, Color Pencil
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary José Luis Cuevas Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Charcoal, Crayon, Mixed Media, Gouache, Color Pencil
20th Century Modern José Luis Cuevas Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Mixed Media, Ink, Watercolor
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary José Luis Cuevas Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Charcoal, Mixed Media, Gouache, Color Pencil, Crayon
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary José Luis Cuevas Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Charcoal, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor, Color Pencil, Gouache
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary José Luis Cuevas Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Charcoal, Crayon, Mixed Media, Gouache, Color Pencil
