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In 1939 I arrived in Paris to find my paintings stuck in customs and no gallery. With Marcel Duchamp I staged the show at Renou et Colle, and the Louvre bought The Frame — the first work by a Mexican artist in its collection.
In November 1938 I held my first solo exhibition at Julien Levy's gallery in Manhattan and sold about half of the 25 paintings during the Great Depression — the moment my art reached an international public.
I am a Mexican painter of portraits, self-portraits and works drawn from the nature and artifacts of Mexico. I use a naive folk art style to question identity, postcolonialism, gender, class and race in Mexican society.
