Lot 242: ARMANDO GARCIA NUNEZ (1883-1965) OIL PAINTING

Armando García Nunez (1883-1965) Oil on Masonite Farm Landscape with Figures. Signed lower right. In frame measures 20 1/2"x16"x2". Weight 4 pds. PROVENANCE: A Charleston SC Private Estate. Armando García Nunez works depict Mexican painting between the colonial period and the Revolution. His uncluttered landscapes embrace rural Mexico, there are spacious valleys and adobe structures under open skies, as in the oil painting, Grandeza Mexicana.He had his first exhibit in 1907; in 1911 he showed a notable collection of small canvases at the Academy of San Carlos. As a result of this showing, interim Mexican president Francisco Leon de la Barra awarded him a grant to study in Europe. García Nunez spent time in Barcelona, Madrid and Paris before returning in 1913 to Mexico in the midst of the Revolution.He became one of Mexico's great teachers. He taught anatomical drawing and imitation at the National Preparatory School for 30 years. At that time, the traditional method of learning to be an artist was to copy the work of the masters.

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