María Izquierdo worked at a period when the terms of art itself were being renegotiated.
The record lists María Izquierdo as Mexican painter (1902–1955).
María Izquierdo was born at San Juan de los Lagos in 1902. Her recorded nationality is Mexico.
Around the turn of the twentieth century the movements arrived in quick succession, each defining itself against the last.
She worked as painter and artist.
An artist's reputation moves with taste, but the work stays exactly where it was left.
That the work was made in Mexico shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
María Izquierdo died in 1955, aged 53. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
