Jesús Reyes Ferreira, Con Las Manos Vacías Painting, Framed

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Jesús Reyes Ferreira (Mexican, 1882-1977), con las Manos Vacías
(With empty hands), gouache on tissue paper, signed at upper left, … Read more Jesús Reyes Ferreira (Mexican, 1882-1977), con las Manos Vacías
(With empty hands), gouache on tissue paper, signed at upper left, framed under glass.

Jesús "Chucho" Reyes Ferreira was born in Guadalajara. His interest in art was influenced by his father, a lawyer, teacher and author of Las bellas artes en Jalisco (1882). Ferreira worked as an apprenticeship with a printing house, a decorator for high society weddings and funerals and as a window dresser for a well-known glassworks. In 1938, "Chucho" Reyes moved to Mexico City where he acquired a large house near the Galería de Arte Mexico. There, he opened his own artist's studio in the courtyard and dealt in antiques. It was there that he began experimenting with various materials and techniques. By the 1940s, Reyes' work, rooted in Mexican folk customs and modern influences, was being collected and admired by Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Helena Rubinstein, Picasso, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Marc Chagall and others.

Dimensions: Sight size 29 3/4 x 19 1/4 in.; Frame dimensions 36 3/4 x 26 1/2 in.
Provenance: Maurice Henry Roth, Silver Spring, Maryland
Condition: Some flaking and wear. Not examined out of the frame. See less