Fishes
1943 · Oil on canvas
45 1/2 x 35 1/8" (115.6 x 89.2 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Amelia Peláez Del Casal
Artist
PaintingSurrealismCubismRealism
Representation
None documented
11
Institutional Exhibitions
4
Works in Collection
11
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0
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Publications Referenced
90%
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- • Surrealism
- • Cubism
- • Realism
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Latin-American Art, 1931�1966, from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1967
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100 Drawings from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1960–1961
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XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1954–1955
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Faces and Figures: Drawings from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1954
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Children's Holiday Carnival of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1951–1952
About
Why this artist matters now
Amelia Peláez del Casal was a Cuban painter whose distinctive modernist vocabulary synthesized Cubism, Surrealism, and Caribbean decorative traditions. Working primarily in oil on canvas, she developed a signature formal language of flattened planes, bold outlines, and vibrant local color that encoded domestic still lifes and female figures with both sensuality and structural rigor. Her work constitutes a foundational contribution to twentieth-century Latin American modernism, establishing a visual idiom rooted in Cuban material culture and the feminine sphere.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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