Venezuela, 1927–2012 · Painting and landscape

Ramón Vásquez Brito

Venezuelan painter born in Porlamar, on Margarita Island, in 1927, who died there in 2012. He trained at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Aplicadas in Caracas until 1947, where he later taught; he won the National Prize for Visual Arts at the 1950 Official Salon and represented Venezuela at the 1962 Venice Biennale. The work in the collection is a small, almost white landscape with a band of blue water; its attribution is confirmed by Pablo Vaca.