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Here is a very beautiful original 1940's watercolor painting by the famous Spanish painter ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ
LUNA (1910-1985). Guaranteed original and authentic. Signed and titled "LUNA '45". The titled is dated "1939-1945" which would
suggest that this is a scene depicting an event from World War II. Notice that the figures are crippled and wounded. Painted
on heavy stock paper measuring 10" X 13 1/2" end to end. Has some very faint stress lines around the edges (not very noticeable,
does not effect the work). We also have a wonderful paper booklet titled "RODRGUEZ LUNA - DIEZ Y SEIS DIBUJOS DE GUERRA" that
will be supplied with the painting. In 1992 this artist had a painting reach $21,360.00 in auction. VERY, VERY BEAUTIFUL!!!
Rodríguez Luna, Antonio (b Montoro, Córdoba, 1910; d 1985). Spanish painter and
teacher, active in Mexico. A political exile from the Spanish Civil War, in 1939 he settled in Mexico where he was to become
important not only as a painter but also as a teacher. His work was pervaded by the shattering experience of exile. Despite
this, he was quick to assimilate his new surroundings and almost immediately published a series of drawings, Dance of the
Concheros (1939, Mexico City, Colegio México), inspired by a dance from San Miguel de Allende. He also worked with David Alfaro
Siqueiros on the murals (1939) from the Sindicato de Electricistas at their union building, Mexico City. After a brief stay
in the USA on a Guggenheim Foundation grant (1941–3), he returned to Mexico and worked on his Exodus series of paintings
(1943–50s), the subject of which, like his later painting Masquerades for a Tyrant (1963; Mexico City, Mus. A. Mod.),
is a protest against the political situation in Spain. On his return from the USA he was invited to teach at the Escuela Nacional
de Artes Plásticas in Mexico City. In the 1950s his painting underwent a great change, with neo-Expressionist brushstrokes
giving way to an economy of line and form that brought his figuration closer to a geometric and schematized idiom. In his
work in the 1960s and 1970s his characters became rigid, confined in geometrical and linear forms. His subject-matter included
animals, still-lifes that are empty of superfluous elements and the recurrent judges, cripples, tyrants and pariahs.
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