Puri Yáñez
Born1936 (age 87–88)
Cartagena, Spain
NationalitySpanish
StyleOil painting
Movementsurrealist

Puri Yáñez (born 1936, Cartagena, Spain) is a Spanish-born artist known for her surrealist oil paintings.[1][2]

Born in 1936 in Cartagena, Spain, and at the age of three she moved with her family to Mexico due to the fall of the Spanish Republic in 1939.[3][4] She attended the Women's University of Mexico (Universidad Femenina de México) from 1952 to 1955 and at Faculty of Arts and Design (previously named Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas) from 1956 to 1958.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Heller, Jules; Heller, Nancy G. (1999). North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. Routledge. p. 592. ISBN 9781135638825 – via Google Books.
  2. ↑ Rogelio Alvarez, José. Enciclopedia de México. Vol. 14. p. 8125. ISBN 9781564090249 – via Google Books.
  3. ↑ The Texas Quarterly. Vol. 12. University of Texas Press. 1969.
  4. 1 2 Musacchio, Humberto (1999). Millennia of Mexico. Vol. 3. Hoja Casa Editorial. p. 3276. ISBN 9789686565379.


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