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1945 Buenos Aires, Argentina - 2014. Known for: Painting, sculpture, ceramics.
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... Read full 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... Read full 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... Read full 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 the same time he also meets Francis... Read full 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 the same time he also meets Francis Bacon, Pablo Picasso, the Viscondesse Marie-Laure de Noailles, Antenor Patiño, Porfirio Rubirosa, Charles de Beist... Read full biography
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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 the same time he also meets Francis Bacon, Pablo Picasso, the Viscondesse Marie-Laure de Noailles, Antenor Patiño, Porfirio Rubirosa, Charles de Beistegui, Alexis de Redé, Emilio Terry, Aristotle Onassis and his daughter Cristina, among other international personalities They began to collect his works.
In 1980 he was invited to participate in the 'Biennale of Venice' at the exhibition Aperto 80, where he exhibited the work "Entartete Kunst" or "Art Degenere", a painting made in 1977, in Rome, in the atelier of the artist, in Piazza Navona and retaken in 1980 to be exhibited in this exhibition. He is a precursor member of the Transvanguardia movement with Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Mimmo Paladino, Nicola De Maria and Enzo Cucchi, however he never adhered to any pictorial movement, he only participated.
Horacio Cordero, besides being a great painter and sculptor, was a writer, photographer, ceramist, designer of jewelry and furniture in bronze, designed for the famous architect and decorator of international fame Juan Pablo Molyneux. Horacio Cordero, lived and worked in New York, Monte Carlo, Paris, London, Italy and Buenos Aires. He was affiliated to ADAGP and signed his works as: Horacio Cordero. He died on June 12, 2014, a few days before turning 69, at the Hospital of Monaco "Princess Grace", after a long illness. The "Horacio Cordero" Foundation is the only one authorized to give an opinion or establish certificates of authenticity of his work. The foundation is working on Horacio Cordero's catalogue raisonee.