Juana Francés

Juana Francés (1924 – 1990) was a Spanish Abstract Expressionist painter. She was born on 31 July 1924 in Altea, Spain.^[1] She attended the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid. In 1957 she co-founded the El Paso (grupo) [es] (El Paso/The Step) a Spanish Abstract Expressionism group.^[2] She died on 9 March 1990 in Madrid.^[3]

Her work was included in the 1954, 1960 and 1964 Venice Biennale. It was also included in the 1960 exhibition Before Picasso; After Miró at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum^[4] as well as the 1962 Tate exhibition Modern Spanish Painting.^[2] In 2023 her work was included in the exhibition Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-1970 at the Whitechapel Gallery in London.^[5]

References

^ Palmeral, Ramón Fernández (20 December 2022). "Juana Francés". Meer (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 May 2023.
^ ^a ^b "Juana Francés". AWARE Women artists / Femmes artistes. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
^ "Francés, Juana Concepción". Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
^ "Before Picasso; After Miró". The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
^ "Action, Gesture, Paint". Whitechapel Gallery. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
^ "Francés, Juana". Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 May 2023.