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

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, 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 Bradford Technical College, 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. Guevara appears to have shown such serious anti-semitic attitudes whilst studying at the Slade that he was beaten up twice by fellow Jewish students,

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and Jacob Kramer for his bullying of Isaac Rosenberg.J.M. Wilson, ''Isaac Rosenberg'' (Evanstone: University of Illinois Press, 2008) 136 He married Meraud Guinness (1904-1993), a painter and member of the

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, and settled in

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. He died in

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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 Artists 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