María Izquierdo became one of the first Mexican women artists to receive major international recognition. Her paintings of altars, circuses, rural landscapes, still lifes and women developed outside the dominant muralist model and often carry a compressed, theatrical symbolism.
Painting; watercolor; drawing
Major Works
- The Sop of Sleep
- Dream and Premonition
- Altar of Sorrows
- Friday of Sorrows
- Still Life with Fish
- Circus
- The Rope Dancer
- Horses in the Landscape
- Self-Portrait
- Women at the Well
Interviews & Writing
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