biography
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| lived:
| (1934– )
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| biography:
| Painter, born in San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, USA. At the Expo 92 World's Fair in Seville, he was named Puerto Rico's most important 20th-c painter and the successor of the island's two previous most important artists: Campeche (18th-c) and Oller (19th-c). Rodón studied in Spain, France, and Mexico and painted still-lifes and landscapes, but he was best-known for his portraits, which constituted a who's who gallery of prominent Latin and South Americans. In 1990 his ‘Medea’ sold for $93 000 at Christie's in New York, then the highest price ever paid for the work of a Puerto Rican painter. |
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