FRANCISCO ICAZA VINTAGE MODERN ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST CUBISM PAINTING OLD 1970s

Description: RARE AND CAPTIVATING VINTAGE MODERN EXPRESSIONIST WATERCOLOR PAINTING BY REVERED MEXICAN PAINTER FRANCISCO ICAZA. (Mexican 1930-2014) THIS WORK DEPICTS A SAPPHIRE BLUE EXPRESSIONISTIC PORTRAIT OF WHAT APPEARS A BEARED MAN. BRILLIANTLY RENDERED IN THE ABSTRACT CUBISM STYLE WITH SUBTLE SPLATTERS AND DRIPS OF PAINT, ADDING AN ELEMENT OF SPONTANEITY AND ARTISTIC FREEDOM. THESE ELEMENTS CONTRIBUTE TO THE PAINTING’S BESUTY AND DYNAMIC ENERGY. SIMPLY AMAZING. SIGNED BY ICAZA IN THE LOWER RIGHTHAND CORNER. IT DATES AROUND THE 1970s. EXCELLENT OVERALL CONDITION. DIMENSIONS: 32”H x 25”W Francisco Icaza (1930 - 2014) was active/lived in Arizona / Mexico. Francisco Icaza is known for Abstract animals and figure painting, drawing of faces. Francisco Icaza (5 October 1930 – 3 May 2014) was a Mexican artist best known for his drawings about his travels and his oil paintings. He spent much of his life living in and visiting various countries around the world. He began painting as a child while living as a refugee in the Mexican embassy in Germany. Icaza exhibited his work both in Mexico and abroad in Europe, South America, the Middle East, Asia and India, most notably at his three major solo exhibitions at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City. He also painted a mural dedicated to Bertolt Brecht, La Farándula, at the Casino de la Selva in Cuernavaca, a focus of controversy when the work was moved and restored in the early 2000s. He painted additional murals for the Mexican Pavilion at the HemisFair in Texas (Urban Flowers); for the Mexican Pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal, Canada (Canto al Barroco Maya); and for the Mexican Pavilion in Osaka (Repressive Computers) at Expo '70. This last mural is held at the Museo de Arte Abstracto Manuel Felguérez in Zacatecas City. He was an active member of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana and also a member and founder of several important Mexican artistic movements including Los Interioristas (Nueva Presencia), El Salón Independiente, and La Confrontación 66. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgium and was a student of Rufino Tamayo during his stay in New York. He was an active member of the Mexican Plastic Hall, the Independent and Confrontation Hall 66. Since 1969 he drew an approximate of sixteen books, defined as pictographic books. The first was One Hundred Years of Solitude, with one hundred sheets. Later they continued: The conquest of Mexico, Once upon a time, Brief history of a playful hand, The quartet of Alexandria, The erotic journey and Sancho listening to the reading of Don Quixote.

Price: 8000 USD

Location: Pasadena, California

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