Zélie Lardé
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Zélie Lardé | |
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| Zélie Lardé Arthés | |
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| Born | 11 August 1901 San Salvador, El Salvador |
| Died | 27 October 1974 (aged 73) San Salvador, El Salvador |
| Occupation | painter |
| Movement | Primitivism |
Zélie Lardé Arthés (1901–1974) was a Salvadoran painter, considered the first Primitivist painter in El Salvador.[1]
Zélie Lardé was born on 11 August 1901 in San Salvador, El Salvador. Her brother was a scientist and archaeologist Jorge Lardé y Arthés. Her sister, Alice Lardé de Venturino was also a poet, and pedagogue in El Salvador.
Career
Zélie Lardé was a self-taught practitioner in arts and painting. She was the first in El Salvador to adopt the Russian art movement Primitivism, which later became a large movement in the 1970s in El Salvador.
Personal life
In 1923, Zélie married the Salvadoran artist Salazar Arrué. They had three daughters – María Teresa, Aída Estela, and Olga Teresa. She later became the mother in law to the famous United States mathematician John Forbes Nash.[2]
