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FANNY RABEL La Familia.
Acrylic on Masonite, 1956. 1220x910 mm; 48x35 7/8 inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower right recto.
Provenance: With the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Museo Nactional, Mexico City, with the label; private collection, New York.
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 in Mexico City, the Casa Azul. Rabel apprenticed with the important muralists Diego Rivera (1886-1957) and David A. Siqueiros (1896-1974), and completed numerous murals herself, including her most significant work La Ronda en el Tiempo, 1964 , 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, Mexican culture and family, and later in her career she created work related to ecology.
