Fernando Reyes , Activo 1924-28

According to a monograph on the achievements of the Open Air Schools of Painting published by the Misnistry of Education in 1926, Fernando Reyes was 16 year old and had graduated in June 1925, which means he must have been born in 1909. He was from Tlalpan, at that time a village close to Mexico City, the son of a humble family of artisans, Fernando Reyes was one of the many children and young adults who benefited from the art education instituted by post-revolutionary governments. Before he became a pupil, as a child he had worked in an adobe brickworks. Under the direction of his teacher, the painter and engraver Francisco Díaz de León, who was director of the Tlalpan school fro 1925 to 1932, Fernando Reyes had a short but vigorous career as a new young painter that led him to exhibit his work abroad.

Dos figuras (Pareja de niños)  (1926) Oil on canvas 62.4 x 72.2 cm