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Ricardo Macarrón
Spanish painter (1926–2004) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ricardo Macarrón Jaime (1926–2004), was a Spanish painter and portraitist.[1] He is known for his court paintings for European royalty and portraits of aristocracy,[2] including four generations of the House of Bourbon,[3] and Victoria Eugenia of Battenberg.
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Early life
Ricardo Macarrón Jaime was born on 9 April 1926 in Madrid, Spain.[1][4] His father Juan Macarrón Despierto owned a workshop for art restorers and carvers.[4]
Macarrón attended Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, studying under Joaquín Valverde Lasarte .[1][5][4] While he was a student he made his first portrait of artist Joaquín García Donaire in 1943.[4] Macarrón won many art awards while he was a student.[4] He met his future wife Alicia Iturrioz in college, where she also attended too.[6] Together they had two daughters.[6]
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Career and late life
He had three marked periods of style in his paintings – from 1955 to 1960 he was working with a cubist influence; from 1960 to 1968 his work was darker and emphasized "disenchantment"; and in later life in the 1990s the work reflected his strong technical skills and techniques.[4] Macarrón had painted portraits of three Queens, Sofia of Spain, Elizabeth II of England, Noor of Jordan.[4] Also notable is his 1961 portrait of Carmen Cervera.[7]
Macarrón died on 14 May 2004 in Riaza, Spain.[8] He was cremated and has a memorial in Almudena cemetery in Madrid.[4] After Macarróns death, Iturrioz wrote the memoir Mi Vida con Ricardo Macarrón (2014) about their shared life experiences.
His work is found in public museum collections, including the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum,[9][10] and Biblioteca Museu Víctor Balaguer.
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References
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