Álvaro Guevara Reimers (13 July 1894 – 16 October 1951) was a Chilean-born painter, based in

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and loosely associated with the

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. Guevara left Chile in 1909 and arrived in

on 1 January 1910. He attended

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, studying the cloth trade, but also spent two years secretly studying at the Bradford College of Art. After failing his technical college exams he went on to the

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from 1913 to 1916 and had a one-man show at the

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. Shone, Richard. (1999) ''The Art of Bloomsbury: Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant''. Princeton:

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, pp. 137-138. He married

Meraud Guinness Meraud Michelle Wemyss Guinness also known as Meraud Guevara (24 June 1904 – 6 May 1993) was a British painter, writer and poet. She lived most of her life in France, having settled there with her husband, Álvaro Guevara, from whom she wa ...

(1904-1993), a painter and member of the

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, and settled in

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. He died in Aix-en-Provence on 16 October 1951.

References and sources

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Tate Gallery
*''Latin Among Lions - Alvaro Guevara'' by Diana Holman-Hunt (1974, Michael Joseph) *''Meraud Guinness Guevara, ma Mère'' by Alladine Guevara (2007, Rocher) 1894 births 1951 deaths Guinness family People from Valparaíso Alumni of the University of Bradford Alumni of University College London 20th-century Chilean painters Chilean male artists Chilean male painters Male painters 20th-century Chilean male artists {{Chile-painter-stub