Alicia Iturrioz

Alicia Iturrioz
Born(1927-01-31)31 January 1927
Eibar, Gipuzkoa, Spain
Died9 September 2021(2021-09-09) (aged 94)
San Sebastián, Spain
NationalitySpanish
EducationReal Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
Occupation(s)painter, author
SpouseRicardo Macarrón
Children2

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 aristocracy.[1]

Biography

Alicia Iturrioz Arrizabalaga was born 31 January 1927 in Eibar in Gipuzkoa, Spain.[2][3] She was talented at making art as a child, and she went on to attend the Madrid Academy of Art at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in 1944.[2][3]

She met her future husband in college, Ricardo Macarrón.[2][4] Together they had two daughters, and she stopped painting for 20 years to raise her children.[2] 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.[2] Iturrioz died on 9 September 2021 in San Sebastián, Basque Autonomous Community, Spain.[3]

Her work is found in public museum collections including the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, and the Museo Cristóbal Balenciaga [Wikidata]. Queen Elizabeth II of England had one of her paintings of her corgi dog in her collection.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Fallece la pintora Alicia Iturrioz a los 94 años" [Painter Alicia Iturrioz dies at 94]. Donostitik (in Spanish). 2021-09-09. Retrieved 2022-01-02.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Fallece Alicia Iturrioz, la artista a la sombra del retratista de la aristocracia" [Alicia Iturrioz, the Artist in the Shadow of the Aristocratic Portraitist, Dies]. Naiz: (Bilbao) (in Spanish). 2021-09-09. Retrieved 2022-01-02.
  3. ^ a b c Lorenzo, Clara G. (2021-09-09). "Muere la pintora Alicia Iturrioz a los 94 años" [The Painter Alicia Iturrioz Dies at 94]. La Nueva España (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-01-02.
  4. ^ Who's Who in the World. Marquis Who's Who. 1970. p. 590. ISBN 978-0-8379-1101-4.
  5. ^ ""Isabel II fue encantadora. Me pidió que dibujara a su corgi": Alicia Iturrioz, la pintora española que estuvo con la reina en Buckingham" ["Elizabeth II was lovely. She asked me to draw her corgi": Alicia Iturrioz, the Spanish painter who was with the queen in Buckingham]. Vanity Fair España (in European Spanish). Condé Nast. 2019-12-16. Retrieved 2022-01-02.