Roberto De Lamonica (1933-1995), was born in Ponta Pora, Brazil where he initially made his reputation as a sculptor.  He later gravitated to printmaking having found a medium which perfectly merged his technical expertise, passionate response to line and form and exceptional ability to communicate narrative in compositions that unite disparate elements expressing anger, angst, loss, danger, fight, flight and threat (personal and ecological).  His actors, human and not, play out fractured reality or fevered dreams.

 

He became not only a leading practitioner and innovator but also one of the most important teachers of graphics in America and abroad in the latter part of the 20th century.

 

His work is represented in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), the Brooklyn Museum and Guggenheim Museums in New York City, in the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas in Austin, and the Stedelijk in Amsterdam. Additional works reside in many other cities including Warsaw and São Paolo.

 

With a burgeoning interest in Latin American art, the late De Lamonicas have finally come into their own. The market for Latin American art is supercharged and we look forward to reintroducing these distinguished works to as many collectors and curators as possible.