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Filipina abstract artist (1914–1994)

Nena Saguil (September 19, 1914 – February, 1994) was a Filipina artist of modernist and abstract paintings and ink drawings.

She was most known for her cosmic, organic, and spiritual abstract works depicting internal landscapes of feeling and imagination.

Born in Santa Cruz on September 19, , Nena Saguil would grow up to become a breakthrough female artist of the Philippines.

The coffee table book, Conversations on Nena Saguil, published by her nephew Benjamin Saguil, discusses her life during those years, through an exchange of.

Nena Saguil (September 19, – February, ) was a Filipina artist of modernist and abstract paintings and ink drawings.

Nena Saguil ( - ) was active/lived in Philippines, France.

Nena Saguill, a pioneering Philippine modern artist remembered as a feminist, a mystic and a recluse, was one of ten children of Epifanio Saguil and Remedios.

For these, Saguil is considered a pioneer of Filipino abstract art.^[1][2]

Life and career

Simplicia "Nena" Laconico Saguil was born on September 19, 1914, in Santa Cruz, Laguna, Philippines, to Epifanio Saguil and Remedios Laconico.

Her father was a private physician to the country's second president, Manuel Quezon. One of ten children, Saguil was brought up in a conservative Catholic household.^[1]

Saguil rejected the Catholic school education her parents desired for her.

She received her education at University of the Philippines School of Fine Arts where she studied under Fernando Amorsolo, a conservative painter and teacher who adhered to