SEVERIN, JOSE MARIA DE (1917-1983)

"Caballo (Horse)" (c.1970)
oil on jute
60 x 90cm
signed on verso
*Galerias Internacionales in Mexico City, 1975
*private collection, Sydney
 
Severin was a renowned Mexican Painter. Raised in Guadalajara, Mexico, he was a distinguished member of the group “Young Painters of Jalisco”. He is best known for his colourful, modernist paintings and murals of traditional Mexican themes and iconography, and was a close friend and collaborator of the iconic José Clemente Orozco, arguably Mexico's greatest Modernist. He exhibited widely throughout Mexico, the United States, Venezuela and Panama, winning numerous awards including at the Madonna Festival in Los Angeles. This unique, large painting on traditional Mexican jute was originally purchased at the Galerias Internacionales in Mexico City in 1975.