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Ricardo Ramirez-Rivero / Reynaldo Maya
Factotumla.com invites you to explore and purchase early works by Mexican contemporary artist Ramirez-Rivero (Yucatan) and midcentury artist Reynaldo Maya (Taxco, CDMX) .
The Artwork
Find contemporary early work of Yucatan artist RICARDO RAMIREZ RIVERO, purchased in 2022 from a shop near to where the artist lived in Altadena, California, USA.
Also find a number of early, pre-1960, midcentury paintings by Reynaldo Maya (1911-), purchased from a San Francisco-area estate in 2024. Notice that a number are framed identically. Buy in bulk and I will give you 10% off.
RAMIREZ RIVERO Formerly California-based, Mexican American artist Ricardo Ramirez Rivero explores patterns and texture in his works. Many of his pieces are both painting and sculpture. They include materials like papier mâché, gesso, and paint on canvas or ceramic, like with the matching lamp bases offered for sale here. Rivero's work has appeared in a number of projects by acclaimed designers, including Damien Langlois Meurinne and Jeff Andrews. (This description taken from 1stDibs. This 1stDibs site is not affiliated with my shop.)
MAYA Reynaldo Maya’s paintings have been on display in Paris, Madrid and Mexico City, and were popular with American tourists to Mexico in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. He was born in San Miguel Topilejo, near Mexico City, c. 1911. He began painting at five, and when he was in grammar school, he illustrated lessons on the blackboard for both students and teachers. His paintings are of rural Mexico landscapes, architecture and character studies.
Maya was one of many plein air artists “Thus arose three new Open Air Schools, directed by former students of Alfredo Ramos Martinez from the Coyoacan school; in Tlalpan, Francisco Diaz de Leon; in Xochimilco, Rafael Vera de Cordova, and in Villa de Guadalupe, Fermin Revueltas. It was precisely in Xochimilco that students like Reynaldo Maya emerged. Maya’s talent was recognized from a very early age and as an adult he was a teacher at the Taxco Outdoor School where he had the largest of his Production.
The art he produced was mainly collected by American visitors in Taxco, so it is more common to find his work in the United States. His style captures the light without a doubt with an impressionistic touch.
Source: Moguel, Clare Bolivar “From Culture art to popular art. Outdoor painting schools.” Museo National de Arte. 2013.
Source: El Paso Herald, El Paso, Texas, USA, July 1, 1947.
Submitted by Edward P. Bentley, Art Researcher and Historian. Greenville, Michigan.
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