Ángel Botello Color Lithograph "Recostada con flores," Circa 1975

Item Details

Ángel Botello (Puerto Rico/Spain, 1913 – 1986)
Recostada con flores (Reclining With Flowers), circa 1975
Color lithograph on paper
Signed to the lower right margin
Numbered 58 of 150
Title inscribed to the verso

Though he never attached himself to one specific artist movement, Botello was one of the greatest Latin American Post-Modern artists of the 20th century. Known as the “Caribbean Gauguin,’ his works depict the spirituality of island life through abstracted forms and bright colors. Working in all the artistic media available, Botello studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and School of Art of the San Fernando Academy. During the Spanish Civil War, he was forced to leave his studies and serve in the Republican Army as a cartographer. After the war, he fled to France to join his family as a refugee. Eventually, they were warmly welcomed by the artist community of the Dominican Republic and Botello continued his artistic career, exhibiting throughout the Caribbean and Central America, and opened a gallery in the Caribe Hilton Hotel in 1953. Botello’s works can be found in private and public collections, notably the Kennedy Center, Washington, DC, Hispanic Museum, New York, and more.

Condition

- artwork has been opened and recentered within its matting and frame; slight buckling to artwork and matting; flecks of loose debris and accretions scattered between print, matting, and the acrylic glazing of frame; scratches and scuffs to acrylic glazing; cracks and spots of chipped loss to the composite accents and veneer of frame, most visibly at the corners; abrasions, scratches, scuffs, and accretions to frame.

Dimensions

- measurements of frame; image measures 28.5" W x 19.25" H.

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Item #

ITMR047377