Original 1948 Raul Anquiano Signed Ink Drawing Portrait of Man Important Mexico

This is a wonderful ink portrait of a man in suit and tie speaking. This drawing is done in black ink and gouache, using both brush strokes and pen strokes for the crosshatching. The original pencil sketch can be seen underneath the black. White gouache can be seen over the black in some details, showing that this piece was likely for publication. It is signed and dated 1948 in the bottom left corner. It is initialed in the bottom right corner. 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 dis