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Alberto Medina Mendieta (Bolivian) (1934 – 2021)
“Bank Holiday 1966”
Mixed Media on paper.
Signed
Inscribed on original backboard
“Purchased from an exhibition in June 1967 - No. 57”
8 ¼” X 9” (205mm x 230mm)
Overall framed sized 15 5/8” x 16” (395mm x 405mm)
Framed using low reflect ultra-violet filtering glass IMAGE IMAGE
Alberto Medina Mendieta studied at the School
of Fine Arts in Oruro Bolivia from 1952 to 1955, becoming a teacher there and
later its Director. He also taught at the Technical University of Oruro and trained at Ecole Superieure
des Beaux Arts in Paris from 1967 to 1968 and when he returned to Bolivia he
took over the direction of the Hernando Siles School of Arts in La Paz in
1989. He travelled widely and his work was exhibited in Mexico; Costa
Rica; Argentina; Columbia; Brazil; Peru; Chile; Uruguay and Equador.
His awards for art include UTO Grand Prix in 1968, Honorable
Mention Coltejer Biennial Columbia in 1968, Grand
Prize for Art of the Mayor’s Office of Cochabamba in 1974, Grand Prize for Art
Universidad Tomas Frias Potosi in 1975 and 1981, Sudarte
Prize for Drawing Maldonado Biennial in Uruguay in 1981, Grand Prize of the
Salon Murillo for his work “Mina hitos sabor a Copajira” in 1991.
He was often referred to as the Andean Picasso and in July 2011 he received the
most important art recognition in Bolivia – the “Pedro Domingo Murillo” for his
lifetime’s work
