Alfredo ramos martinez 1871-1946 artist statement

Description

• Alfredo Ramos Martínez
• Mariquita en flores
• signed, dated Ensenada México August 1930 and inscribed To Mrs. Martin Healey Sincerely Ramos Martínez lower right
• oil on canvas
• 61 by 81 in.
• 155 by 205.7 cm

Provenance

La Playa Resort, Baja, CA
Sale: Butterfield's, San Francisco, Modern and European Paintings, June 19, 1991, lot 1848, illustrated
Sale: Christie's, New York, Important Latin American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, May 18, 1992, lot 5, illustrated in color
Sale: Sotheby's, New York, Latin American Art including Property from the Estate of Stanley Marcus, November 20, 2002, lot 79, illustrated in color
José Antonio Sanabria, Mexico City

Literature

Margarita Nieto, Art Without Borders-Alfredo Ramos Martínez, Antiques & Fine Art, November 1991, illustrated in color
Museo Nacional de Arte, Alfredo Ramos Martínez (1871-1946), Mexico City, 1996, illustrated

Condition

This large and impressive painting is unlined. The paint layer seems to have been fairly recently cleaned and varnished; it is very stable and the canvas is well stretched. There is a thin layer of dust on the surface which could be easily removed. There are no visible issues and no restorations other than one

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Alfredo Ramos Martínez

Mexican artist

Alfredo Ramos Martínez
Alfredo Ramos Martínez in Los Angeles, 1941. In the background, a drawing for the unexecuted mural, Los Charros del Pueblo.
Born	November 12, 1871 Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
Died	November 8, 1946 (aged 74) Los Angeles
Nationality	Mexican
Education	Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City
Known for	Painting, Fresco, Murals, Drawing, Watercolor, Printmaking
Notable work	Margaret Fowler Frescoes (1945; unfinished), Scripps College, Claremont, California
Movement	Modernism, Mexican muralism, Figurative art, Portraiture, Impressionism
Awards	Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold (Belgium), 1923
Patron(s)	Phoebe Hearst, (San Francisco); William Alanson Bryan (Los Angeles); Harold Grieve (Los Angeles); Albert M. Bender (San Francisco)

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Ramos and the second or maternal family name is Martínez.

Alfredo Ramos Martínez (November 12, 1871 – November 8, 1946) was a painter, muralist, and educator, who lived and worked in Mexico, Paris, and Los Angeles. Considered by many to be the 'Father of Mexican Modernism', Ramos Martínez is best known for his serene and empathetic paintings of tradi