fanny-rabel-poland-mexico-1922-2008-mother-child
Lot 518
Fanny Rabel (Poland/Mexico, 1922-2008), Mother & Child
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Graphite on paper, signed at lower left, presented under glass in a period frame.

DOA 30.75 x 24.25 in.

Born in Poland, Fanny Rabel and her family moved to Mexico in 1938. In Mexico City, she studied art at the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado "La Esmeralda", where she met and became friends with Frida Kahlo. She became the only female member of “Los Fridos” a group of students under Kahlo’s tutelage. She also worked as an assistant and apprentice to Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros, painting a number of murals of her own during her career.

Horizontal creasing and soft cockling to sheet; light toning; not examined out of the frame.