Alicia Iturrioz Arrizabalaga (31 January 1927 – 9 September 2021) was a Spanish painter and author. She is known for her portraits, she was a portraitist for the Spanish royal family and the European

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Biography

Alicia Iturrioz Arrizabalaga was born 31 January 1927 in

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. She was talented at making art as a child, and she went on to attend the Madrid Academy of Art at the

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in 1944. She met her future husband in college, Ricardo Macarrón. Together they had two daughters, and she stopped painting for 20 years to raise her children. Iturrioz published a memoir after her husband died, ''Mi Vida con Ricardo Macarrón'' (2014), which recounted the couple's experiences. When she returned to painting after raising children she continued with portraits, but added landscape and still life painting. Iturrioz died on 9 September 2021 in

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, Basque Autonomous Community, Spain. Her work is found in public museum collections including the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, and the . Queen

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of England has one of her paintings of the her corgi dog in her collection.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Iturrioz, Alicia 1927 births 2021 deaths Spanish women painters Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando alumni 20th-century Spanish painters People from Eibar