Enrique Grau (1920-2004) Colombian, Lithograph in Colors, "La Manola". Pencil signed, titled, dated 1976, and numbered #39/100. 

Overall Size: 38 x 28 1/2 in.

Sight Size: 28 1/2 x 20 in.

Enrique Grau (December 18, 1920 – April 1, 2004) was a Colombian artist, renowned for his depictions of Amerindian and Afro-Colombian figures. He was a member of the triumvirate of key Colombian artists of the 20th century, which included Fernando Botero and Alejandro Obregón.

Grau was born in Panama City, Panama, just like many of the children of his time with Colombian parents, and raised in Cartagena, Colombia. He was the son of Enrique Grau Velez and Carmen Araujo Jimenez.

A self-made artist, he was influenced by the Colombian masters Ignacio Gomez Jaramillo, Santiago Martinez Delgado and Pedro Nel Gómez. Grau studied at the Art Students League in New York City, USA from 1941–42, and later toured Italy, where he learned et  ...  Displaying 750 of 1465 characters.

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