Abraham Ángel
As tomorrow finishes US Open (one of the best days of the year for all tennis fans), we have prepared something special for you. A tennis player in a painting!
The artist who created it, Abraham Ángel Card Valdés, was a Mexican artist known under his given name, Abraham Ángel. At 16, he decided to attend art and painting studies at Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes (also known as Academia de San Carlos), a decision met with absolute opposition from his family. There, he met Manuel Rodríguez Lozano, his tutor, with whom he had an intense homosexual affair. In that difficult moment, Abraham Ángel decided to drop his surname and move to his lover's home. But at some point, Lozano chose another young artist, Julio Castellanos, as his protégé and abandoned Abraham Ángel a couple of years later. Humiliated and depressed, he was found dead on October 27, 1924, from a cocaine overdose, either by accident or as a suicide.
His scarce works, around 30 known paintings, are highly appreciated and valued by museums and art collectors.
P.S. If you like art and sports we have something you will definitely love! Check out these amazing paintings of women doing sports, including tennis!
P.P.S. Another work by Abraham Ángel is present in our 2024 DailyArt Desk Calendar. Check it and our other Calendar proposals full of art here - and beware, they are now on a presale with a -25% discount!