Alberto Gironella, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Mexican artist
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Place of Birth: Mexico City, Mexico
About Alberto Gironella
- Alberto Gironella (1929–1999) was a self-taught Mexican painter born in Mexico City.
- Heavily influenced by the politics and artist in Mexico, he showcased his works in Brazil, United States, Spain, France, Japan, Sweden and Switzerland.
- In Mexico his works were in the Palace of Fine Arts and Museum of Modern Art, and the Carrillo Gil and Rufino Tamayo museums.
- Gironella also illustrated the book Terra Nostra by Carlos Fuentes.
- In 1960 he won the first prize of the Paris Biennial for Young Painters and the first prize of the Sixth Biennial of São Paulo, Brazil.
- Several of his later paintings were nudes, including several with either topless or fully naked women on beds either holding a classical guitar or one shown in the background such as Sanda as Carmen (1985).
- Gironella has left behind a legacy with his artworks and his only known son, Emiliano Garcia, has continued to share his fathers works.
- specifically his father's "Las Meninas" series.
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