Old Painting Female Nude by Hector Sgarby 1946

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Old Painting Female Nude by Hector Sgarby 1946

It still has its original label from an exhibition in which she participated in 1946 at the national commission of Fine Arts.
Oil / canvas / cardboard. Gilded wooden frame.
Framed measurements: 50 cm (20”) x 42 cm (16.6”)
Measurements only work: 34 cm (13.5”) x 26 cm (10”)

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Old Painting Female Nude by Hector Sgarby 1946

It still has its original label from an exhibition in which she participated in 1946 at the national commission of Fine Arts.
Oil / canvas / cardboard. Gilded wooden frame.
Framed measurements: 50 cm (20”) x 42 cm (16.6”)
Measurements only work: 34 cm (13.5”) x 26 cm (10”)

Héctor Sgarbi (1905 – 1982), painter, sculptor and diplomat

Biography
He studies at the Círculo de Bellas Artes, where he had José Luis Zorrilla de San Martín, Guillermo Laborde, Vicente Puig and Antonio Pena as teachers. He also stood out in sports practice in various disciplines in the early 1920s.

He received a scholarship from the Ministry of Public Instruction, thanks to which he could visit European artistic centers, and settled in Paris in 1937. There he studied at the Paris School of Fine Arts, also studying with the masters André Lhote and Othon Friesz. He remained until 1946, suffering the vicissitudes of the Second World War, and painting works inspired by those difficult times.

In 1946 he returned to Montevideo, under the auspices of the National Commission of Fine Arts, he held an exhibition in Montevideo of 200 works, paintings and drawings, which he later moved to Buenos Aires. Later he settled in Brussels, where he held the position of Counselor at the Embassy of Uruguay.

Since 1960 he dedicated himself to sculpture.

In 1968, sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he held a 45-year retrospective exhibition at the Municipal Subway, where he exhibited drawing, painting and sculpture.

He exhibited bronze sculptures at the Salon d’Automne in Paris (1940 to 1953), at the Salon des Indépendants (1938 to 1950), in Official Salons in Paris and Belgium, and at the Bienale Internacionale di Scultura Carrara, Italy 1962.

In 1974 he returned to Uruguay. In 1976 he was named Honorary Member of the Commission of the Círculo de Bellas Artes of Montevideo. Since 1977 he has directed Drawing and Painting classes at said center until his death on August 17, 1982.

Today, his work can be seen in the Juan Manuel Blanes Municipal Museum of Fine Arts, in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in the Presidential Room of the Senate of the Republic, in galleries and private collections. In 2001, Galería Latina held a retrospective exhibition of his work.