#naïveart

[useless-catalanfacts]

This painting is by Montserrat Aleix (Palamós, Catalonia 1908 - Mexico DF 2004), a Catalan woman who had to go on exile after the fascists’ victory in the Spanish Civil War, in 1939. She moved to Mexico, where she lived for the rest of her life.

She started to paint when she was 64 years old, in a characteristic naïve style that mixed Catalan and Mexican influences.

This painting and some more of her work are kept at Museu de l’Empordà in Figueres (Catalonia).

[artist-basquiat]

La Hara, Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1981, Jean-Michel Basquiat

[raoul-dufy]

The Grid, 1930, Raoul Dufy

Medium: oil,canvas

[artist-chagall]

Jacob sees in a dream a ladder touching the sky, in which the angels of God ascending and descending (Genesis, XXVIII, 14), 1956, Marc Chagall

Medium: etching,paper

[artist-picasso]

The Mackerel, 1903, Pablo Picasso

[horace-pippin]

Domino Players, 1943, Horace Pippin

[artist-maria-prymachenko]

Fairy bird – Peacock, 1936, Maria Prymachenko

[artist-fernando-botero]

Self-Portrait the Day of the First Communion, 1970, Fernando Botero