Nuevo Mundo - original magazine cover
Published in Spain 1920
Illustration by Rafael de Penagos *
Measures 22 cms by 29 cms.
Unmounted
Good condition with some minor signs of ageing
* Raphael de Penagos (1889 – 1954)
Was a Spanish illustrator and painter and, as a practitioner of the art deco style and considered one of the most representative figures of Madrilenian modernism.
Today Penagos would be termed a style guru, and his art deco illustrations presented a new Spanish society that was both urban and modern. He created a type of woman known as the "mujer Penagos" - daring, well-dressed, sophisticated, and provocative. The “mujer Penagos” was also slender, with narrow hips, smoked cigarettes, played sophisticated sports, and loved anything exotic. Manuel Peña Muñoz remarks that "life copied art. Because Penagos didn't paint the Madrilenian woman, but the reverse: the Madrilenian woman painted herself like the Penagos Women.Penagos' illustrations helped change the mentality and customs of the Spanish woman, making her life feel less provincial and more European and cosmopolitan.
After the Spanish Civil War, Penagos went into exile in Argentina , returning to Spain in in 1953 where he died a year later.
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