Alicia Penalba

Alicia Penalba ( born August 7, 1913 in San Pedro near Buenos Aires, Argentina, † November 4, 1982 in Paris, France) was an Argentine- French sculptor. She was one of the major representatives of Abstract Art after the Second World War.

Life

Alicia Penalba moved in 1948 with a grant from the French government in Paris. She graduated in 1949 Ossip Zadkine at the Académie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris and at the Academie Argentina de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires. She lived and worked most of her life in Montrouge Paris and in France. The first exhibition of their works in 1955 at the Salon des Nouvelles Réalités, her first solo exhibition in Paris at the Galerie du Dragon.

In the 1950s and 1960s, their art garnered international acclaim. She was - among other things - participant of the documenta 2 in 1959 and the documenta 3, 1964 in Kassel, and won the prize for sculpture of the São Paulo Biennial in 1961 her works -. Primarily abstract bronze sculptures which natural forms were borrowed - have been in numerous exhibitions shown worldwide.