Day 1: Folk Art, Outsider & Self-Taught. Day 2: Two Private Native American Collections with Select Additions
Wed, Mar 11, 2026 10:00AM EDT
Live Auction
Lot 76
Hector Alonzo Benevides - Untitled Drawing
Estimate: $500 - $800
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Hector Alonzo Benevides - Untitled drawing. Ink on paper. Signed LR.
Frame: H 17 in. W 21 in. Paper: H 9 in. W 12 in.
Provenance: Puck Show at Rising Fawn Folk Art Gallery, Tennessee, 01/29/00.
A devout Roman Catholic born in Laredo, Texas, in 1952, Benavides grew up on his family’s ranch in Hebbronville. He stated that despite the abstraction of his drawings, they were embedded with meaning; triangles, for instance, represented the Holy Trinity. He had always enjoyed drawing as a child and made it a lifelong practice, but the death of his mother in 1996 propelled him to immerse himself in his art as a way to channel his grief. He also used it as an outlet for his obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms, explaining, “I’ve turned a negative into a positive.” What at first appear to be patchworks of woven fabric are actually intensely detailed drawing in the work of Hector Alonzo Benavides. Up close, the threaded patterns are revealed to be made of tiny dots, circles, squares, and triangles, minutely sketched with an ultra-fine-point ballpoint pen.
Hector Alonzo Benevides work can be found in the collections of the American Folk Art Museum and the Webb Gallery in Waxahachie, Texas which first exhibited the artist work in the early 1990s.
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