Gustavo Novoa - Artist Info

About Gustavo Novoa

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    GUSTAVO NOVOA

    Gustavo Novoa is the only son of a family of lawyers from Santiago, Chile. He attended the Academy of Fine Arts and Law School there, only to learn that structured careers were not for him.

    Novoa made his debut as an artist in the early '60's selling watercolors and works in crayon in the streets of Paris, principally Montmartre. His first one-man show was sponsored by the Chilean Ambassador at the Maison de L'Amerique Latine in 1961. The late Queen Victoria Eugenia of Spain sponsored his second show in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1962. Showing in galleries In the Faubourg St. Honore and the Salon de la Jeune Peninture completed his Parisian background but, by 1965, he had become an adoptive "New Y...

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