Alicia PENABLA (Argentina 1913 – France 1982)
After studying at the School of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires, Alicia Penalba moved to Paris in 1948. Working alongside Russian Cubist sculptor and painter, Ossip Zadkine, she was inspired by his abstract sculptural works. Her first solo show was in 1957, two years later she took part in Documenta II in Kasel and in 1968 she exhibited in Totems et Tabous, alongside fellow Latin American artists Wifredo Lam and Roberto Matta organised by the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s Penalba started making jewellery in Paris that were produced in numbered editions first by F&F Gennadi and later by Artcurial.