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FANNY RABEL Críticas de arte.
Acrylic on canvas, 1966. 1090x710 mm; 42 3/4x28 inches. Signed and dated in acrylic, lower left recto.
Ex-collection Garelick's Gallery, Detroit, with the label on the frame back; private collection, Boston.
Rabel (1922-2008) is considered the first modern female muralist in Mexico, but also worked in painting, engraving, drawing and ceramic sculpture. Born in Poland, her family moved to Paris in 1929 before settling in Mexico in 1936. She studied drawing and engraving at the Escuela Nocturna para Trabajadores before continuing her training at the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura, y Grabado, Mexico City, in 1942.
She was one of four students, nicknamed "Los Fridos", who studied under Frida Kahlo at her home, the Casa Azul. Rabel apprenticed with the important muralists Diego Rivera (1886-1957, see lots 179-183) and David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896-1974, see lot 199), and completed numerous murals herself, the most signifcant is the 1964 work La Ronda en el Tiempo located in the Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City. She was a member of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana and the Taller de Gráfica Popular. Her work focused on themes of injustice, and later in her career she created work related to ecology.
