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Federico CastellonNoted as a surrealist printmaker, painter, sculptor, and illustrator, Castellon, immigrated to the United States with his family at an early age.
He was basically a self-taught artist, sketching while young and visiting various museums in the city of New York. His influences were the Old Masters, Giorgio de Chirico, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, and Georges Roualt.
After meeting with Castellon, Diego Rivera became interested in his drawings and showed them to the director at the Weyhe Gallery in New York City where he eventually had his first solo exhibition.
Castellon received two Guggenheim fellowships and experimented with the mediums, lithography and etching. His prints and drawings are the first examples of Surrealism created by an American. He was elected to the National Academy of Design in New York and became a member of the Society of American Graphic Artists. Castellon had many exhibitions at various institutions and galleries and was included in exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Federico Castellon
Spanish-American (1914-1971)
Les Deux a Deux Magots
10-7/8 x 9-1/8 in.
Etching and aquatint, 1967, edition 74/100. Freundlich 184. Signed, numbered, and titled in pencil. Printed on wove paper with a watermark, BLK Rives. A superb impression in excellent condition with full margins.
Les Deux Magots is a famous cafe in the Saint-Germain-des-Pres area of Paris. It is a popular tourist attraction and was frequented by Surrealist artists and writers, such as, Sartre, Picasso, Hemingway, Camus, and others.
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Federico Castellon
Spanish-American (1914-1971)
Waiting Women
8-3/4 x 11-7/8 in.
Lithograph, 1950, edition limited but unknown. Freundlich 106. Signed on the stone, lower margin, left, and in pencil. Published by the Society of Print Connoisseurs with their blind stamp, lower margin, left. A fine impression printed on parchment like paper with a watermark, Basingwerk Parchment. Full margins.
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