Elvira Gascón

Elvira Gascón Vera ( * 1911 in Almenar, † February 10, 2000 in Soria ) was a Spanish painter and graphic artist.

Biography

Gascón studied from 1929 to 1935 painting at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid and attended sculpture classes. At the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, she worked at the Museum of Archaeology in Madrid. Then she married the architect and painter Roberto Fernández Balbuena, with whom she went to Mexico in 1939. In Mexico, she had 28 solo exhibitions and was represented at 45 group exhibitions, painted eight murals and illustrated, including around 150 books. Your born in Mexico City in 1944 daughter Elvira Fernández Gascón is a well-known sculptor.