Roberto Berdecio
{{Short description|Bolivian-born artist}}
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| birth_name = Roberto Guardia Berdecio
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1910|10|20|df=y}}
| birth_place = Sucre, Bolivia
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1996|1910|df=y}}
| death_place = La Paz, Bolivia
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| spouse = Marion Davis Berdecio
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| field = Painting
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| relatives = Mario Mercado (brother)
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Roberto Guardia Berdecio{{cite web |title=124-10313-10012 |url=https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/124-10313-10012.pdf |website=research/jfk/releases |publisher=archives.gov |quote=Mora was well acquainted with Marion Davis Berdecio (65-58515) and her husband, Roberto Guardia Berdecio.}} (20 October 1910–1996) was a Bolivian-born artist and a significant contributor to the important political and cultural art movement in Mexico during the 1950s and 1960s.{{Cite web|title=From Sucre to the Big Apple : Roberto Berdecio and the Vanished Murals of 13th Street - PDF Free Download|url=https://docplayer.net/63237783-From-sucre-to-the-big-apple-roberto-berdecio-and-the-vanished-murals-of-13th-street.html|access-date=2021-02-27|website=docplayer.net}}
Early life
Berdecio was born in Sucre, Bolivia.
Career
Berdecio worked in New York City in the 1930s with David Alfaro Siqueiros. Berdecio moved to Mexico in the late 1940s where he continued his career in art. He painted murals and portraits, created lithographs and artistic explorations into the fourth dimension. Berdecio's archives, which outlined his collaboration with David Alfaro Siquieros in New York and Mexico, were purchased by the Getty Museum in 1995. He died in La Paz, Bolivia in 1996.
Personal life
Berdecio married Marion Davis Berdecio. In 1980, he met Susan Ribnick in Cuernavaca, Mexico. They moved to the U.S., and traveled annually to Europe and South America, where the artist's politically prominent brother, Mario Mercado, resided in La Paz. Susan and Roberto were in a relationship for 15 years. They collaborated on many projects including the mural restoration (1990) of The Padre Hidalgo mural painted originally with Juan O 'Gorman at the CIESS campus in Mexico City.
References
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External links
- https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/124-10313-10012.pdf
- Interner Archive. Coplon, Judith HQ-10
- {{cite web |title=Roberto Berdecio |url=http://www.mundoandino.com/Bolivia/Roberto-Berdecio |website=mundo andino |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110820012949/http://www.mundoandino.com/Bolivia/Roberto-Berdecio |archive-date=2011-08-20 }}
- {{cite web |title=Roberto Berdecio |url=http://www.artnet.com/artists/roberto-berdecio/ |website=Artnet}}
{{Members of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana}}
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Category:20th-century Bolivian artists
Category:Bolivian expatriates in Mexico
Category:Bolivian expatriates in the United States
Category:Artists from New York City
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