Lot 17: ALFREDO RAMOS MARTÍNEZ(1872-1946)

LA INDIA DE LOS FLORIPONDIOS signed upper right; also signed indistinctly upper left oil on canvas 30 by 24 in. 76.2 by 61 cm Painted circa 1932.

George Raphael Small, Ramos Martínez, His Life & Art, Westlake Village, 1975, fig. 129, p. 133, illustrated; also p. 104 illustrated in color The Alfredo Ramos Martínez Project, Margarita Nieto, PhD, Louis Stern, et. al., Alfredo Ramos Martínez & el Modernismo, Costa Mesa, 2009, p. 83, illustrated in color

Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, Los Angeles Private Collection, San Luis Obispo Sale: Christie's, New York, Important Latin American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, May 18, 1992, lot 85, illustrated in color Private Collection, California

“What Ramos Martínez aimed to construct pictorially during his voluntary exile in California (1929 – 1946) was a sort of harmonious and organic utopia, a village populated by indigenous Mexicans, such as Gaugin would render in Polynesia or Rivera in his idyllic pre-Hispanic scenes and post-revolutionary pastorals. In a simulacrum of a highly fertile paradise, overflowing with flowers and fruit, the indigenous figures depicted by Ramos Martínez live their lives cycles in intimate communion with the rhythms of nature, involved in creative activities that seem indistinctive to them, removed from the pressures and anxieties of the contemporary world.” Fausto Ramírez, Un Homenaje a Alfredo Ramos Martínez, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, August 1996, p.57