Horacio Cordero - Artist Info

About Horacio Cordero

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Horacio Rodolfo de Sosa Cordero
  • Biography

    Horacio Rodolfo de Sosa Cordero, 10th Marques de Sosa, (Buenos Aires, June 29, 1945 - Monaco, June 12, 2014) was an Argentine painter, sculptor and ceramist.

    He belonged to an old Spanish aristocratic family that dates back to the fourteenth century in the lands of Castile. The only son of Don Rodolfo María of Sosa Cordero and Mrs. Ángela Marcó del Pont.

    His first studies were with the Jesuit Fathers, who awakened his vocation for art. In 1965, he settled in Paris, France and forged a long friendship with Alberto and Diego Giacometti, with whom he collaborated, at the request of the sculptor in the last stage of his life, to make some patina, especially for the Picasso Museum - Hotel Salé Paris . At ...

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