Mabel Arcondo (1940–1976) was a Paraguayan artist whose work is classified in the art history of Paraguay as being at the intersection between primitivism and surrealism.
[1] Mabel studied commercial art in Buenos Aires and learned the rudiments of painting from Adán Kunos in Asunción,[2] but she was largely self-taught.
[3] Stylistically her work is complex, drawing on a dream-like quality which transforms reality in the manner of Chagall and using color schemes of fauvism, but with an original sense of melancholy, according to Ticio Escobar.
Though doctors warned her that a pregnancy might jeopardize her health further, she gave birth to her only child, Daniel Milessi, on 3 June 1976.
Her works are held and shown in numerous museum collections[2][5][6] and in 2014 were part of a discussion and exhibit presented by the International Association of Art Critics Paraguay Chapter.