Bridget bate tichenor biography books
Bridget inherited a peripatetic world from her self-absorbed, famous, and creatively gifted parents that fueled deep insecurities fed by fears of abandonment.
Artist Pedro Friedeberg wrote about Bate Tichenor and their life in Mexico in his book of memoirs De Vacaciones Por La Vida (Holiday For Life)....
Bridget Bate Tichenor
Artist
Bridget Bate Tichenor | |
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Portrait by George Platt Lynes, New York 1945 | |
| Born | Bridget Pamela Arkwright Bate ( 1917-11-22)November 22, 1917 Paris, France |
| Died | October 12, 1990(1990-10-12) (aged 72) Mexico City, Mexico |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Slade School of Fine Art, École des Beaux Arts, Art Students League of New York |
| Known for | Painting, Fashion editor |
| Notable work | Domadora de quimeras, Caja de crystal, Los encarcelados, Líderes |
| Movement | Surrealism, magic realism |
Bridget Bate Tichenor (born Bridget Pamela Arkwright Bate) (November 22, 1917 – October 12, 1990)[1] was a British surrealist painter of fantastic art in the school of magic realism and a fashion editor.
Born in Paris, she later embraced Mexico as her home.[2]
Family and early life in Europe
Bate was the daughter of Frederick Blantford Bate (c. 1886–1970) and Vera Nina Arkwright (1883–1948),