![Abraham Ángel - Self-Portrait [1923]](http://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5529/18695781508_58cbf409a2_o.jpg)
Abraham Ángel Card Valdés (El Oro, March 7, 1905 – Mexico City, October 27, 1924) was a Mexican artist. At age 16, Abraham Ángel decided to attend art and painting studies at the National School of Plastic Arts (also known as Academy of San Carlos), a decision met with absolute opposition from his brother Adolfo. Abraham Ángel refused to comply, so he ended up being expelled from his home, to the astonishment and sadness of his mother and sister. It was 1921, and Abraham Ángel had already met Manuel Rodríguez Lozano, his tutor, with whom he had an intense homosexual affair, and who gave lessons in drawing based on the methods of Adolfo Best Maugard. In that difficult moment Abraham Ángel decided to drop his surnames and moved to his lover’s home. A couple of years later, Lozano abandoned Abraham Ángel. Humiliated and depressed, he was found dead from a lethal cocaine injection on October 27, 1924. His scarce works, numbering around 30 known paintings, are highly appreciated and valued by museums and art collectors.
[Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City - Oil on cardboard, 81 x 72.5 cm]