Alejandro Obregón - Oil artwork painting / Hand signed Measures : 13 x 9'5 / 24 x 20 Inches (FRAME) Obregón was born in Barcelona, Spain. He was the son of a Colombian father and a Catalan mother. The Obregón family owned a textile factory in Barranquilla, Colombia.[1] Most of his childhood was spent in Barranquilla and Liverpool, England. After returning to Barranquilla, he decided to become an artist.[2] He studied fine arts in Boston for a year in 1939, then returned to Barcelona to serve as Vice Consul of Colombia for four years. He married Ilva Rasch-Isla, the daughter of poet Miguel Rasch-Isla, during his time in Spain.[1] In 1948, he became Director of the School of Fine Arts in Santafé de Bogotá, where he was influenced by the fresco style of artists Pedro Nel Gómez and Santiago Martinez Delgado.[citation needed] He left the School of Fine Arts and moved to France with his second wife, Sonia Osorio; he later married his third wife, English painter Freda Sargent.[3] After traveling around Europe, he returned to Barranquilla in 1955.[3] Obregón died on April 11, 1992, succumbing to a brain tumor.[4] He lived and worked exclusively in Cartagena for the last 22 years of his life, from 1970 until his death in 1992. Dimensions: 13 x 9'5 / 24 x 20 Inches

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24 x 20 x 2 in

7 kg