About

Pedro Coronel, Mexican (1923 - 1985)

Painter, sculptor, draftsman and engraver, Pedro Coronel (1923 - 1985) was born in the city of Zacatecas in 1923. He studied painting and sculpture in La Esmeralda National School of Painting and Sculpture from 1940 to 1945 under Juan Cruz, Francisco Zúñiga and Santos Balmori and was later a teacher there himself.

In 1946, Coronel went to Paris, where he attended workshops directed by the painter Victor Brauner and the sculptor Constantin Brancusi. From then on he lived alternately in Mexico and Paris. He belonged to a generation of painters that viewed …