Original 1948 Raul Anquiano Signed Ink Drawing Nature Woman Important Mexico

Original 1948 Raul Anquiano Signed Ink Drawing Nature Woman Important Mexico This piece depicts the portrait of a radiant woman surrounded by flowers and leaves. Her hair is wavy and blends into the foliage around her. This piece is sketched in pencil and finished with black gouache and ink. It is signed and dated in pencil in the bottom left corner. His initials are found in the bottom right of the illustration. Raul Anguiano, Mexican (1915 - 2006) Raúl Anguiano was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, on February 26th, 1915. He started drawing cubist pictures at the age of 5, taking as his first models movie stars, as Mary Pickford, Pola Negri and Charlie Chaplin. Anguiano recalls that his first artistic influence or aesthetic emotion came from the Holy Family by Rafael Sanzio. At the age of 12, Anguiano attended Guadalajara's Free School of Painting under the tuition of Ixca Farias. From 1928 to 1933, he studied with the Master painter José Vizcarra, the disciple of S