Juana Francés

Juana Francés (1924 – 1990) was a Spanish Abstract Expressionist painter. She was born on 31 July 1924 in Altea, Spain.^[1] She attended the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid. In 1957 she co-founded the El Paso (grupo) [es] (El Paso/The Step) a Spanish Abstract Expressionism group.^[2] She died on 9 March 1990 in Madrid.^[3]

Juana Concepción Francés
Born	(1924-07-31)31 July 1924 Altea, Spain
Died	9 March 1990(1990-03-09) (aged 65) Madrid, Spain
Known for	painter
Movement	Abstract Expressionism

Her work was included in the 1954, 1960 and 1964 Venice Biennale. It was also included in the 1960 exhibition Before Picasso; After Miró at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum^[4] as well as the 1962 Tate exhibition Modern Spanish Painting.^[2] In 2023 her work was included in the exhibition Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-1970 at the Whitechapel Gallery in London.^[5]

Her work is in the collection of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.^[6]

References

1. Palmeral, Ramón Fernández (20 December 2022). "Juana Francés". Meer (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 May 2023.
2. "Juana Francés". AWARE Women artists / Femmes artistes. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
3. "Francés, Juana Concepción". Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
4. "Before Picasso; After Miró". The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
5. "Action, Gesture, Paint". Whitechapel Gallery. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
6. "Francés, Juana". Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 May 2023.