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Joy Laville, b.1923

Florero, 2010

Florero is a 2010 work by Joy Laville. It is part of the IMMA Permanent Collection.

MediumPhotogravure
Dimensions Sheet size, 70 x 100 cm
Plate size, 50 x 40 cm
Credit LineIMMA Collection: Diplomatic gift of the Federal Government of Mexico, 2011
Item NumberIMMA.3758
Copyright For copyright information, please contact the IMMA Collections team: [email protected].
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Joy Laville, Florero, 2010, Photogravure, Sheet size, 70 x 100 cm|Plate size, 50 x 40 cm, Collection Irish Museum of Modern Art, Diplomatic gift of the Federal Government of Mexico, 2011

For copyright information, please contact the IMMA Collections team: [email protected].

About the Artist

Joy Laville, b.1923

British painter Joy Laville attended art school in the south of England before joining the Observer Corps during World War II. From the 1940’s, Laville lived in Canada and then Mexico where she attended the Instituto Allende. She experimented with Cubism and Abstract Expressionism before establishing her own painting style. Laville was a candidate for the National Prize for Arts and Sciences in Mexico in 2011. She was awarded the Bellas Artes Medal for her life’s work in 2012.

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