Roberto de Lamonica, was a Brazilian artist (1933-1995) who created "Dream" in 1968, an intaglio engraving, etching, aquatint on paper
limited edition of 88 of 210
dimensions: 78.8 x 53.4cm
Roberto De Lamonica, a Brazilian artist, was born in Ponta Pora, Brazil, Roberto de Lamonica was a master printer, painter and professor. He began his studies in the School of Fine Artsin São Paulo, then worked at the São Paulo Art Museum under the guidance of Poty and Darel, later studying printmaking with Renina Katz. In 1958 he moved to Rio de Janeiro and studied with Orlando da Silva at the Liceu de Artes e Ofícios. The following year, he studied under Johnny Friedlaender at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro.
In 1963, de Lamonica was invited to teach at the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1965 and settled in New York City in 1967, where he taught printmaking at several institutions, including the New School for Social Research, the Pratt Gtraphics Center and the Art Students League. In the erly '80s he spent two years at the Sydney College of Art in Australia creating a new graphics department for the school.
Awards include: Grand Prize, II Biennial of Santiago; Best Brazilian Engraver Prize, VIIth Biennial of Sao Paulo; First Prize, Krakow Biennial, 1966. His prints are in many private and pubic collections around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum, New York City; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Santiago Art Museum, Chile; and M.I.T., Boston.
NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE July 1, 1995
ROBERT DE LAMONICA, 62, ARTIST, DIES
Roberto De Lamonica, an artist and teacher of graphics at the Art Students League for nearly 30 years, died on Sunday at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan. He was 62 and lived in Manhattan. The cause was emphysema, said Lawrence Campbell, archivist of the Art Students League.
Mr. De Lamonica was born in 1933 in Ponta Pora, Brazil, and studied art in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. In 1965 he earned a Guggenheim Fellowship for work and travel in the United States, and he settled in New York City in 1967. He worked in a figurative style influenced by Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism, and had one-man shows at the Pan-American Union in Washington, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and the Columbia Museum in Columbia, S.C. He also taught graphics at the New School for Social Research and in the early 1980's spent two years at the Sydney College of Art in Australia creating a new graphics department for the school.
Mr. De Lamonica won several prizes for his prints, which are represented in many public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum, New York City, and the Walker Art Center.
No immediate family members survive.