Benjamin Palencia Pérez, Women Holding Sheaves Of Wheat

Benjamín PALENCIA PÉREZ (Barrax, 1894 – Madrid, 1980)
Women holding sheaves of wheat
Pen, brush, black ink, black ink wash, watercolor and gouache on paper (1949)
Dedicated, signed, located and dated lower right A la condesa de Fels / B. Palencia / Paris March 5 49
33 x 47 cm
Original gilded frame from COUSIN Frères
Dimensions with frame: 53 x 64 cm

Note: our work is dedicated to Marthe Marie Louise de Cumont, known as Marthe de Fels (Paris, 1893 - Paris, 1988). Countess of Fels and Princess of Heffingen Lebaudy, French woman of letters, she was notably the lover of the poet Saint-John Perse. In March 1950, Marthe de Fels met the Catalan writer, art critic and philosopher Eugeni d'Ors I Rovira, who probably introduced her to Benjamín Palencia, to whom he was very close. In 1951, Palencia exhibited at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.