Artwork Images:
Provenance:
Amelia Peláez
Ramon G. Osuna
Jose Martínez-Canas
Subsidiary of PepsiCo, Inc
Sothebys #5246, New York, November 27th, 1984
Private Collection,Paris.
Sothebys, New York, November 20, 2013, Lot 59.
Literature:
-“Amelia Pelaez” 1896 – 1968 A Retrospective
Cuban Museum of Art and Culture, Miami, Florida, USA
July 15th – August 15th, 1988
-“Latin American Art” Magazine spring 1991, pag.27.
-Guy Perez Cisneros, Vanguardia Cubana, Madrid, Feb 2015, pag.63.
– Diálogos Constructivistas en La Vanguardia Cubana: Amelia Peláez, Lolo Soldevilla and Zilia Sánchez, Galeria Lelong , New York, pag 14 and pag.30.
– “Yo soy mi Propia Musa (Pintoras Latinoamericanas de Entreguerras 1919-1939)”, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile, Chile. Marzo-Junio, 2019.
Ilustrated: pag.150-151.
Biography:
Amelia Peláez was born in 1896 in Yaguajay, in the former Cuban province of Las Villas. In 1915, her family moved to Havana, to the La Víbora district, and this gave her the opportunity to be admitted to the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes “San Alejandro” at the rather late