Obra desconocida

1. Artwork by:

Alejandro Obregón

(1920-1992)

Spanish Painter Oil on canvas 43" X 27" Period: surrealism, cubism. The artwork is dated one year before his death, 1991. (Barcelona, Spain, June 4, 1920 - Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, April 11, 1992) In his youth, he traveled through Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. After living in France for five years, he returned to Colombia and settled in Cartagena, where he worked with Guillermo Wiedemann, Santiago Martínez Delgado, Enrique Grau, and Ricardo Gómez Campuzano. Thanks to him, figurative expressionism gained great popularity in Colombia starting in the 1950s. In 1958 he was awarded first prize at the Hispano-American Biennial in Madrid, and in the following decades, he received numerous awards, as well as several decorations for his work, including the Cruz de Rafael Núñez, in Colombia. Among his best-known works are Máscaras (1952), Homenaje a Zurbarán (1962), Flora (1966), Anunciata en verde (1970), Sortilegio de luna (1985), and La violencia, a work that won the National Painting Prize at the XV National Artists Salon of Colombia.