An original graphite and crayon drawing by Cuban artist, Amelia Peláez. In modernist style, the artist renders an abstract composition with both curved and straight lines, few elements have more figurative attributes; a pair of feet and hands that seem to play hide and seek between the elements of this composition. This piece is in excellent condition and comes with a certificate of authenticity from the Fundación de Arte Cubano (Foundation of Cuban Art)

Amelia Peláez del Casal was an important Cuban painter of the Avant-garde generation,  born in 1896 in Yaguajay, Cuba. Peláez received a prize in the National Exposition of Painters and Sculptors in 1938, and collaborated on several art magazines in Cuba. In 1950 she opened a workshop at San Antonio de los Baños, a small city near Havana, where she dedicated herself, until 1962, to her favourite pastime of pottery. She sent her paintings to the São Paulo Art Biennial in 1951 and 1957, and participated in 1952's Venice Biennale. In 1958 she was a guest of honor and jury member at the First Inter-American Biennial of Painting and Printmaking in Mexico City, although she pulled out of the raucous and controversial jury discussions based on what she reported to be “an openly Communist bias in the decisions.” Aside from painting and pottery, she dedicated time to murals, located mainly at different schools in Cuba. Her most important works of this type are a ceramic mural at the Tribunal de Cuentas in Havana (1953) and the façade of the Habana Hilton hotel (1957). Peláez died in Havana in 1968.

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