Abraham Ángel
Abraham Ángel | |
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Mexican | |
| Education | Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City |
| Known for | painting |
| Notable work | portraits, village scenes and landscapes |
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Abraham Ángel Card Valdés (March 7, 1905 – October 27, 1924) was a Mexican artist known under his given names Abraham Ángel; he dropped his surnames after his brother Adolfo expelled him from his family home when Abraham Ángel was barely 16.
Life
Abraham Ángel was born in
El Oro, State of México, being the youngest of five. His father was Lewis Edward Card Burke (originally Carthburke Beedgar), a Welsh miner and adventurer, who travelled continuously throughout the country in search of fortune in gold and silver mines. His mother, Francisca Valdez, was from Sinaloa
, México. At just 14, she left home to follow Lewis to El Oro, and form a family with him. Lewis, a gambler and womanizer, left a few years later, rarely seeing the family again.
The older brother, Adolfo, became head of the family, which left in search of a better life to
Protestant
environment, the religion professed by his father, which had been energetically adopted by his brother Adolfo.
At age 16, Abraham Ángel decided to attend art and painting studies at
homosexual affair, and who gave lessons in drawing based on the methods of Adolfo Best Maugard.[1]
In that difficult moment Abraham Ángel decided to drop his surnames and moved to his lover's home.
A couple of years later, Lozano chose another young artist,
protégé, and abandoned Abraham Ángel. Humiliated and depressed, he was found dead on October 27, 1924, from a cocaine overdose, either an accident or suicide.[2]
His scarce works, numbering around 30 known paintings, are highly appreciated and valued by museums and art collectors.
List of works
- Amelia
- Autoretrato (1923)
- La Bañadora
- El Cadete
- La Chica (1924)
- La Chica de la Ventana
- Concepción (1921)
- Concha
- Retrato de Señorita Eperanza Crespo, aka Cristina
- La India
- La Familia
- La Mulita (1923)
- Lupe y Maria
- Retrato de Manuel Rodriguez Lozano
- Me Mato
- La Mesera (circa 1923)
- Los Novios
- Paisaje Cuernavaca
- Paisaje Cuernavaca (there are two)
- Paisaje Ixtapalapa
- Paisaje Tepito
- Retrato
- Serpiente
- Tesis
- Retrato de Hugo Tilghman (1924)
References
- ^ Abraham Angel Card, Art Encyclopedia.
- ISBN 978-0300106275.
External links
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