"Drawing By Zarraga Angel (1886, 1946) Mexican-the Boy"
The Boy- Dated 26
Drawing in blue ink on paper signed and dated at the bottom in the middle.
Dimensions with frame (49 x 48 cm)
Coming from a wealthy family, Angel Zarraga settled in France in 1904.
After studying Fine arts in Mexico City, he continued his training in Brussels, Madrid, Toledo and Florence before settling in Paris in 1904 where he started at the Salon d'Automne in 1911.
Zarraga is interested in avant-garde movements such as Cubism.
He will also have great affinities with symbolism and Art Deco but anxious to preserve his freedom, he will not adhere to any current and will keep his own personality. He will also maintain throughout his work a strong attachment to a kind of mysticism very rooted in Mexican folklore.
A. Zarraga, who did not know the Mexican revolution, is imbued with this Paris of the Roaring Twenties which promotes all freedoms, which gives his work a decorative representation, linked to the zeitgeist (liberated women in shortened clothes wearing boyish haircuts).
He will realize many wall frescoes for private homes.
His major work will be the commission of important frescoes for the Mexican Embassy in Paris