Born on a November day, 1872, in Monterrey, ALFREDO RAMOS MARTINEZ at the age of nine years old, he sent a portrait he had painted to a competition in San Antonio (Texas), whwre he was awarded first prize. His work caught the attention of an American woman, who supported his studies in Paris, where he embracing the style of the Post-Impressionists. As with the other major Mexican modernists, indigenous peoples were the principal subjects in his mature works. After his death, some exhibitions became the cornerstones of a re-examination of his work. In Mexico City, entering the Museo Nacional de Arte, you too can admire his 1915’s Belinda Palavicini pastel on paper.
Focused on themes of the Mexican renaissance, his Californian works are abruptly modern, and umble Indian, togheter the dramatic landscapes of Mexico that reveal the spirituality by his people. ALFREDO RAMOS MARTINEZ also was commissioned to paint numerous murals throughout the United States and Mexico. The embrace of a mother to a child, vendedoras balancing baskets of fruit on their heads, it is dramatized by the texture of newsprint. After his death in 1946, his works was highlighted in several memorial retrospectives. In 2007, his 1938 painting Flowers of Mexico brought over $4 million at Christie’s, New York.
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