Attributed to Eduardo Ramirez Villamizar, no coa, private collection, medium: oil, measurements: 29"WX35"H framed, good condition Biography: Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar was a Colombian painter and sculptor. He is considered a pioneer of abstract, minimalist, and Constructivist art in Colombia, and in Latin America more broadly. Ramírez Villamizar was born on 27 August 1922 in Pamplona, Colombia to parents Adela Villamizar and Jesús Ramírez Castro. He was the youngest of eleven children. His father was a jeweler, and his first experiences making visual art took place in his father's studio.He and his family moved to Cúcuta in 1929 in seek of work and economic opportunity after being bankrupted in the Great Depression.In 1940 he moved to Bogotá to study architecture at the National University of Colombia, though he changed his focus to painting in 1944.He was invited by the University of Cauca in 1947 to spend seven months working in Popayán with sculptor Édgar Negret. Negret exposed Ramírez Villamizar to European avant-garde artwork, which he had encountered through colleague and Basque artist Jorge Oteiza. This experience was deeply influential to Ramírez Villamizar's stylistic development in the following years.