A. Ramos Martinez : Pastel "young Woman With Felt Hat"

I know, there is something to be surprised when one deciphers the signature and that one looks at what it corresponds ...
And yet, this charming pastel is indeed the work of Alfredo Ramos Martinez (1871-1946) which, before to become "the father of Mexican Modernism" and of which Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Alfredo Siqueiros were a little children, had a classical training and worked in this register in Los Angeles and especially in Paris where he surely realized this work. I was fortunate to find it in its "gross attic" state, very dirty inside the window and with the rough frame and thanks to a museum restoration of the Christian Olive workshop, I can present it in a correct, apart from the reflections on the glass !
This dapper young woman with a feathered hat and a few heart-catching loops, with a devastating smile and a bodice adorned with a peony, demonstrates the mastery of her author, who painted it in 1911.
Pastel 71 X 54 cm, reassembled in "sandwich" with extensions and cardboard neutral pH by spinettes in its original frame (Maïtena restoration in Hasparren) 94 X 75 cm.
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