Revueltas Sánchez

Revueltas Sánchez is the surname of the children of Gregorio Revueltas Gutiérrez (1871-1923) and his wife Romana Sánchez Arias (1883-1939), a Mexican artist family with roots in Durango. All in all they had twelve children. The family lived in Guadalajara, Jalisco after 1910, before they moved to Mexico City in 1913.

Notable family members

• Consuelo Revueltas Sánchez (1909–1990)^[1], naïve artist
• Fermín Revueltas Sánchez (1901–1935), painter
• José Revueltas Sánchez (1914–1976), writer and political activist
• Rosaura Revueltas Sánchez (1910–1996), actress and writer
• Silvestre Revueltas Sánchez (1899-1940), composer, violinist and conductor

Notable descendants

• Children of José:
  • Román Revueltas Retes (b. 1952), violinist, journalist, and painter
• Children of Silvestre:
  • Eugenia Revueltas Acevedo (b. 1934), writer
  • Carmen Revueltas Klarecy (later Carmen Montoya and Carmen Peers, born c. 1920–died 1995), ballet and flamenco dancer

Further reading

• R. Revueltas Sánchez Los Revueltas: Biografía de una familia (Spanish), 1979.

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