Silvia Pardo was born in Mexico City on 12 September 1941 and died in the same city in June 2008. She studied at the Universidad Iberoamericana and trained with José Bardasano. At twelve she won third prize in a drawing competition organized by the United Nations, and she illustrated the magazines El Rehilete and Zarza.
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A prominent figure on the art scene of the 1970s, she was above all a portraitist —some two thousand faces are attributed to her— and painted nudes, erotic scenes and landscapes with a surrealist air. She painted murals for the Cineteca Nacional and the Bosque de Chapultepec, both now lost; the one at the former seat of the Senate of the Republic (1971) survives. She exhibited at Galería Misrachi, the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana and the Mexican Cultural Institute in San Antonio, Texas.
50 x 80 cm
Oil on masonite
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