Meraud Guinness
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Meraud Guinness |
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Female |
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London, England |
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British |
| Birth: |
1904 |
| Death: |
1993 |
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oil on canvas |
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Painting
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Biography
After studying at the Slade in the mid-1920's, Meraud Guinness trained in New York under Alexander Archipenko, and then with Francis Picabia in France. Picabia wrote the catalogue foreword for her first solo show, in Paris at the Galerie van Leer in 1928. Among the works exhibited were three portraits of him, along with paintings of fish and flowers, and of Liverpool Cathedral.
The following year, Guinness married Chilean artist Alvaro Guevara. Her work developed in two directions. She made paintings of women in the South of France, combining a smooth finished surface (likened by critics to the French primitives and Clouet) with a solidity of form learnt from Cubism, and a strange space and atmosphere influenced by Surrealism. On her American debut at the Valentine Gallery in 1939, the New York Sun commented: 'First there was Balthus, now there is Meraud Guevara.' Guevara also worked non-figuratively. As Waldemar Georges described in the catalogue for her 1956 exhibition at the Galerie Guenegaud, Paris, her abstract works evoked 'the structures of the natural world', suggestive of forests, undersea life and fantastic flowers. Among Guevara's group exhibitions was 31 Women, organized by Peggy Guggenheim at her gallery Art of this Century in 1943, where her work was seen with that of Dora Carrington, Frida Kahlo, Louise Nevelson and Dorothea Tanning among others. |
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