Guillermo Roux is an Argentine painter known for his watercolors, collages and frescoes.

Roux was born in Buenos Aires

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, Argentina

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, and his father, Raúl Roux, was a well-known Uruguay

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an painter. He studied in the Buenos Aires School of Fine Arts until 1948, and in 1956 he travelled to Rome

Rome

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. There, Roux worked in Umberto Nonni's bottega as an assistant in restoration and decoration projects. He returned to Argentina in 1960, and relocated to Jujuy Province

Jujuy Province

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, where he taught art and continued to paint.

He lived in New York City

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, were he worked as an illustrator and a painter, from 1966 to 1967, and returned to Buenos Aires. He traveled extensively, exhibiting in Berlin

Berlin

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, London

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, Munich

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, Paris

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 and Sicily

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, and in 1975, he earned his first international prize at the XIII São Paulo Art Biennial

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. This was followed by, among other honors, the Konex Award

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 (the highest prize in the Argentine cultural realm), in 1982. Roux's work was added to the prestigious Phillips Collection

Phillips Collection

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 in Washington, DC, in 1988, and he contributed one of four new frescoes that were added to the cupola of the shopping arcade, Galerías Pacífico

Galerías Pacífico

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, when it was reopened in 1991.

Roux created his own teaching workshop in 1997; his themes include still life, harlequins, Italian actors and geometric shapes; they are often surrealistic. He was named Illustrious Citizen of Buenos Aires in 2007.