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Admired Flamenco Painter Marvin Steel passesđ
With great sadness we announce the passing of Flamenco Painter MARVIN STEEL on September 24, 2024 after a recent illness and hospitalization.
Born in Detroit, Michigan, Marvin Steel was a painter of romantic realism in oil and pastel, and resident of Coconut Creek, Florida.
Steel grew up in Miami Beach, then, just a small fishing town. His mother was of Sephardi Jewish descent and father Russian. When, at six years old his mother noted his talent in art, she started lessons for him locally at the Associated Artists art shop. Marvin continued his studies for ten years with local Russian portrait painter, Samuel Alexander Jafnel who worked for many years painting portraits at Jenny Grossinger’s Resort in the Catskill Mountains. In 1957, Steel traveled to Spain for further training at the Royal Academy of San Fernando.
His early interests included painting, fishing and small boats and later an expansive documentation of Spanish culture and, most notably, Flamenco portraits. His work remains as part of the permanent collections of the Carnegie Museum of Art, and the Museo del Baile Flamenco Cristina Hoyos in Sevilla.
We send our heartfelt condolences to his family, and friends and the community of Flamenco artists whose lives were immortalized in his work.
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