Provenance: This piece is owned by a private collector originally from NYC. The parents acquired it from an art exhibit in NYC of various South American sculptures in the 1990s. Cristina Galvez is a post-war Peruvian female artist born in 1916. Cristina's first verified exhibition was IV Biennial Do Museu De Arte Moderna De São Paulo at Biennial de Sao Paulo in São Paulo in 1957, and the most recent exhibition was Baldomero Pestana. Retratos Peruanos at Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Lima - MAC in Lima in 2015. Cristina Gálvez is most frequently exhibited in Peru, but also had exhibitions in Brazil, Canada. Galvez has at least no solo shows but two group shows over the last 58 years (for more information, see biography). Gálvez has also been in no less than no art fairs but in one biennial. A notable show was IV Biennial Do Museu De Arte Moderna De São Paulo at Biennial de Sao Paulo in São Paulo in 1957. Other notable shows were at Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Lima - MAC in Lima and Surrey Art Gallery in Surrey, BC. Cristina Gálvez has been exhibited with Macedonio de la Torre and Ricardo Grau. Cristina Galvez’s art is in at least one museum collection, at Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI) in Lima.Cristina Galvez is ranked among the Top 1,000,000 globally, and among the Top 1,000 in Peru. Galvez’s best rank was in 1957, with the most dramatic change in 2015. For a complete illustration of the artist’s career since 1957. Formed initially in France and Belgium, she learn from a very young age the great transformations developed in Europe prior to World War II. Her first professional studies, in the 1930s, were in workshops of renowned European artists such as Mauride in Paris and Van der Stecken in Brussels whose common denominator was based on technical demand and the promotion of creative freedom. In these workshops she will get interested in drawing, but it will be in the study of Parisian postcubist André Lothe - who used to infuse a certain constructive rigor in his students - where he will consolidate his trade. On her return to Peru, in 1936, she mets the group of artists known as The independents among whom Ricardo Grau, Macedonio de la Torre, Servulo Gutiérrez and Juan Ugarte Elespuru stood out, a movement that she joined after leaving the National School of Fine Arts and starting to work with the avant-garde of the moment, the Peruvian-Swiss painter Enrique Kleiser. It is between this personal rediscovery of the country, on the one hand, and a novel modernist outcrop on the other, in which her vocation for sculpture is born, an activity that will be imposed as the main in their life. The work she develops from Huanuquen leather masks - unpublished material among Peruvian scholar sculpture - allows him to access, in the early fifties, a scholarship to Europe where he undertakes his sculptural training. Angel Gabriel, by mid-20th century Peruvian artist and sculptor, Christina Galvez. Sra. Galvez is well known in Peru and in the broader art world, both as an artist, influenced by Alberto Giacometti, and also as a leading teacher of art and sculpture in her art school in Lima. She taught many of the younger generation of artists whose work is now being exhibited in galleries and museums, both in the US and in other countries. Her work has grace and substance.

Excellent

20 x 14 x 11 in

40 lb