21.25 x 18.25 x 0.75 in (54 x 46.4 x 1.9 cm) including frame
Children engaged in quiet play or coastal discovery formed a central theme in Ángel Botello’s post-war graphic work in Puerto Rico. In Niña jugando con estrella de mar, Botello adopts a steep, high-angle perspective, looking directly down upon a young girl crouched forward in concentrated absorption. Her dark pigtails—tied with pink ribbons and highlighted with deep red streaks—frame a downcast, simplified face as both hands carefully inspect a large green starfish resting on the ground. The composition is grounded by heavy black relief lines, balanced against flat planes of saturated yellow, warm brown skin tones, and subtle emerald-green accents, all set against a scumbled grey and white ground. Through concise draughtsmanship and a close vantage point, the print captures an unposed moment of childhood focus on the seashore.
Private Collection, Ontario
Angel Botello
Angel Botello (1913-1986) was a Spanish-born painter, printmaker, and sculptor who lived and worked across Europe, the Caribbean, and North America. He was born on June 20, 1913, in Cangas do Morrazo, in the Galicia region of northwestern Spain. In the 1920s, his family relocated to France, where he commenced his formal artistic education, enrolling in 1930 at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He returned to Spain in 1935 to continue his studies at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid.
His studies were interrupted by the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. Botello enlisted as a cartographer and engineer for the Republican Army, serving until the conclusion of the conflict in 1939. Following the war, he left Spain and joined his family in France before emigrating to the Dominican Republic later that same year. In the Caribbean, he concentrated on painting, depicting local landscapes, residents, and cultural life. In 1944, he traveled through Mexico, where he met and exchanged ideas with Mexican muralists, before relocating to Haiti, where he lived and worked until 1953.
Botello settled permanently in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1953. Over the next three decades, he developed a substantial body of work that encompassed oil paintings, linocuts, lithographs, and bronze sculpture. His figurative subjects included family members, women, children, and dancers, rendered in a stylized, modern aesthetic. In the 1960s, he established his own bronze casting foundry in Puerto Rico to produce large-scale sculptures.
Botello died on October 25, 1986, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, at the age of seventy-three. Following his death, his artwork has been preserved and presented in public institutions internationally. His works are represented in public museum holdings, including the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico in San Juan, the Dayton Art Institute in Ohio, and the Fresno Art Museum in California.
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