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José Luis Cuevas"Papeles de Salazar" Modern Figurative Surrealist Abstract Lithograph Ed. 95/1001983
1983
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Modern figurative surrealist lithograph by Mexican artist José Luis Cuevas. The work features two central seated figures with papers laid out on a table in front of them. The title refers to António de Oliveira Salazar, the 20th century Portuguese dictator. Titled and dated within the print as well as signed, dated and editioned in pencil along front lower margin. Currently hung in a black frame and floated against a white matting.
Dimensions Without Frame: 24.5 in. x W 34 in.
Artist Biography: José Luis Cuevas was born on February 26, 1934, to a middle-class family in Mexico City. He was born on the upper floor of the paper and pencil factory belonging to his paternal grandfather. When he was ten years old, he began studies at the National School of Painting and Sculpture "La Esmeralda", and he also started to illustrate newspapers and books. However, he was forced to abandon his studies in 1946 when he contracted rheumatic fever. The illness left him bedridden for two years. During this time, he learned engraving work taught by Lola Cueto of Mexico City College.
As Cuevas' education was interrupted by illness, he was mostly a self-taught artist. Over time, he developed a unique aesthetic of paintings and sculptures depicting disfigured or disproportioned figures and portraits. He was part of the first generation of Mexican artists to have emerged after the Muralist movement, and a main figure of both the Generación de la Ruptura (Breakaway Generation) and Neo Figurativism.
Cuevas represented Mexico in the 1982 Venice Biennale and later in 1986 came to Tamarind as part of the México Nueve project. During this time he created several lithographs of portraits and self-portraits in his signature style.
Cuveas was a controversial figure for most of his life, often considered to be vain and obsessed with his own sickness and death. In 1992 he created a museum to himself in an old monastery. The artist and his museum, with his life and sexual prowess as its main topic, are both controversial. Despite his predictions that he would live to over a hundred because various tarot readings had told him so, Cuevas died on July 3, 2017, in Mexico City at the age of 83.
- Creator:José Luis Cuevas (1934 - 2017, Mexican)
- Creation Year:1983
- Dimensions:Height: 31.5 in (80.01 cm)Width: 41 in (104.14 cm)Depth: 1.5 in (3.81 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Houston, TX
- Reference Number:Seller: A2025.0307.64921stDibs: LU551315994552
José Luis Cuevas
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.
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