The woman who found important art in a basement
Historical casta paintings, showing mixed-race families in 18th Century Mexico, were destined to be sold off by a Leicester museum. That is, until the intervention of a trainee curator of Caribbean descent. Now, they are to be the subject of a major new exhibition."I saw some paintings by the back door of the basement and, when I looked at them, I realised they weren't like anything I had ever seen before.
Luckily, the museum listened to Tara. She spent the next decade researching the works - an investigation that saw her forge contacts with experts all over the world, including California, New York and Nigeria.- a genre of art that originated from Mexico in the 18th Century. "When you can see a lady is black, she tends to be dressed as a maid, but the lighter or the whiter the women are, they are depicted in the garden, or wearing jewellery."
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