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Amelia Peláez Del Casal

Amelia Peláez Del Casal

Artist
WA-00028866
PaintingSurrealismCubismRealism
Representation
None documented
11
Institutional Exhibitions
4
Works in Collection
11
Assets Indexed
0
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
90%
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Authority Records (3)

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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Latin-American Art, 1931�1966, from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1967
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100 Drawings from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1960–1961
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XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1954–1955
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Faces and Figures: Drawings from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1954
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Children's Holiday Carnival of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1951–1952
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Children's Holiday Carnival of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1950–1951
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Children's Holiday Carnival of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1949–1950
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Drawings in the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1947
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The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1945–1946
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Modern Cuban Painters
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1944
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The Latin-American Collection of the Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1943

Source Registry (1)

About

Why this artist matters now

Amelia Peláez del Casal was a Cuban painter whose distinctive modernist vocabulary synthesized Cubism, Surrealism, and Caribbean decorative traditions. Working primarily in oil on canvas, she developed a signature formal language of flattened planes, bold outlines, and vibrant local color that encoded domestic still lifes and female figures with both sensuality and structural rigor. Her work constitutes a foundational contribution to twentieth-century Latin American modernism, establishing a visual idiom rooted in Cuban material culture and the feminine sphere.

Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 29d ago

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Movement
Surrealism
Medium
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Canonical record

Artworks (4)

Artwork sources (1)

4 published of 8 catalogued · 8 with image
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Images

Study of Leaves (Art Institute of Chicago)
Art Institute of Chicago
Study of Leaves (Art Institute of Chicago)
Art Institute of Chicago

Relationships

4
Movements3
SurrealismCubismRealism
Collections1
Museum of Modern Art
Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection
Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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Exhibitions and timeline

Group ExhibitionLatin-American Art, 1931�1966, from the Museum Collection
New York · 1967
Group Exhibition100 Drawings from the Museum Collection
New York · 1960
Group ExhibitionXXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection
New York · 1954
Group ExhibitionFaces and Figures: Drawings from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art
New York · 1954
Group ExhibitionChildren's Holiday Carnival of Modern Art
New York · 1951
Group ExhibitionChildren's Holiday Carnival of Modern Art
New York · 1950