Angel Ponce de Leon
Biography
(Spanish, b. 1925)
Angel Ponce de Leon lived in Spain until 1948. He attended the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Madrid.
In the following years he traveled to South America (Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Quito). Around 1951 he moved to Cagnes-sur-mer in southern France, spending significant amounts of time in Nice, Menton, Toulouse, and Paris. During this time he worked with Jean Cocteau at Cap-Ferrat and Marbella and with Braque at Saint-Paul-de-Vence.
During the early 1960’s, he settled in the United States for a time, in 1963 exhibiting alongside Tapies, Sam Francis, Viera da Silva, and traveling to Cincinnati, Dallas, and Washington, D.C. After 1962, influenced heavily by the French artist Auguste Herbin, he turned towards geometric abstraction.
Oil on canvas. 25” x 40.”