RODOLFO MORALES 29" x 22.5" OIL ON BOARD PAINTING

Description: Limited time great Offer.!Rodolfo Morales Oil on Board PaintingIt be handled with care, shipped with tracking, together with its Original Provenance.Beautiful art piece, its Provenance is part of a Family State Private Art Collection. Great expression of talent and technique in this art work. It is and old art piece in auction -as is- it can show mild to severe wear, stains, tears, wrinkles due to time, humidity, a patina that gives its characteristic presence. Recent Pictures where taken of the actual art piece you will get. Photographs change colors, tone and brightness, etc. Will be fully ensured DHL Express shipped to buyer.Latin American MasterRodolfo Morales sold at Sotheby's……............................................…..$437,000.00 USDA Vision of Grandeur: Masterworks Nov 24, 2014, Sotheby's Park Ave New YorkRodolfo Morales. (May 8, 1925 - January 30, 2001) was A Zapotec Native American Mexican painter, born to working class parents in the small town of Ocotlán de Morelos, who incorporated elements of magic realism into his work. Morales’ work has been described as dream-like, fertile and heavily based in folklore with brightly colored surrealistic dream-like canvases and collages often featuring native Mexican women in village settings amongst rural buildings, churches, town squares. His style has the influenced by María Izquierdo (1902-1955) and French painter Marc Chagall (1887-1985). He was notable for his restoration of historic buildings in Ocotlán de Morelos and together with Rufino Tamayo and Francisco Toledo, helped make Oaxaca in Southern Mexico a center for contemporary art and tourism. Up until his death in 2001, both he and Toledo had been regarded as Mexico’s greatest living artists for over a decade. From 1948 to 1953 he studied art at the Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City. He graduated as a drawing teacher and began a 32-year career as an art teacher at Escuela Nacional Preparatoria, a position he held from 1953 until 1985. In 1965 for a Christmas party at sculptor friend, Geles Cabrera home, he used collages as decorations. She liked his works and suggested to trade: a piece of sculpture for a painting. This recognition stimulated Morales to focus all his efforts on painting and to make extra money, he organized exhibitions of his work in small galleries around the capital. In 1975 with Morales approaching 50, he was persuaded by Cabrera to hold his first mainstream solo exhibition at the Casa de las Campanas Art Gallery in Cuernavaca. Here his paintings came to the attention of famous Mexican painter Rufino Tamayo. Tamayo helped Morales make contacts with art critics and galleries around the world, leading to a number of joint and solo exhibitions. By 1985, Morales had earned enough money to stop teaching and to return to Oaxaca where he was able to dedicate himself to both his art and to restoration. In 1998 the Children’s Book Press published Angel’s Kite illustrated by Morales in the form of collage. Using income from his art he founded the Rodolfo Morales Cultural Foundation devoted to restoration of buildings in his hometown of Ocotlán. In all, he funded the restoration of fifteen churches including the 16th century Convent of Santo Domingo and a 17th-century church in the town of Santa Ana Zegache, as well creating cultural spaces throughout Oaxaca's central valleys. His most important restoration project was the former convent of Ocotlan which was converted into a municipal complex. Morales ensured that much of the restoration work done was by local women who, by developing skills, were able to later find employment elsewhere. His other notable Foundation work included setting up a computer room for local youths to learn information technology skills, providing materials to aspiring artists, producing of prints to help Frente Común Contra SIDA educate against the spread of AIDS and planting new copal trees not only to enhance the landscape but also to provide wood for the creation of hand-painted animals. Whilst continuing with his art, he would begin each day by making a small collage which he would sell to raise money for his Foundation. He died on January 30, 2001, at the age of 75 in Oaxaca from pancreatic cancer. His remains were placed in his restored Convent of Santo Domingo, in Ocotlán, Oaxaca.Beautiful Art Pieces for art connoisseur enthusiast to be proud of a great addition to his collection in a Close-Out Auction price. We trust the Provenance and beauty. As Christy’s or Sotheby’s disclaimers opinions are to the best of knowledge. We don’t advertise or offer C.O.A. therefore in accordance with the eBay rules, Legislative decree No. 41 of 24/01/2004, article 179, code of culture heritage is declared: -In the manner of- not: a water mark, authentic, lithograph, giclée, or print of any kind. this art piece is as described an original authentic hand signed by the author Oil on Board Painting.

Price: 5562 USD

Location: McAllen, Texas

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