Raquel Forner

Raquel Forner (1902–1988) was an Argentine painter known for her expressionist works.

Life Forner was born on 22 April 1902, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her father was Spanish by nationality and her mother was an Argentine of Spanish descent. A year before graduation she received an appointment to teach drawing at the same academy.

Her work was exhibited widely throughout Argentina, and she was given two Konex Awards (the highest in the Argentine cultural realm) in 1982. Forner died on 10 June 1988 in Buenos Aires. That year, the Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art organized a retrospective in her honor.

Her work is included in the collection of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Art Museum of the Americas, the Museum of Modern Art and others.