Provenance: Private Collection, USA

ABOUT THE WORK

The work of Pacita Abad represents much of the dynamism of life in which struggle and joy, pleasure and pain go hand in hand. Abad tended to use bright, dissonant colors than most other artists. At the very core of her art is an intense vital poetry of a spirit that seeks to put a smile on the world’s face. Her thirty-year painting career began when she traveled to the United States to study law in San Francisco. It was there that she decided to switch careers and dedicate her life to painting. Since that time Pacita never stopped being a gypsy and painted the globe while working on six different continents and traveling to more than fifty countries.