Sergio Ladrón de Guevara

Mexican-American painter with a career spanning more than six decades. His fascination with painting began in his childhood in Mexico City, and over his lifetime he developed a body of work celebrated for its rich use of color and his technical mastery of oil and casein.

His painting ranges across Mexican, French, and international subjects: scenes of everyday life, dimly lit interiors, historic architecture, and figures rendered with a theatrical, tenebrist light. Among his best-known series are «The Walls» — more than a hundred paintings devoted to the walls of towns and cities in Mexico and France — and the semi-abstract «Pandora Variations.» He also worked in printmaking and silverpoint drawing.

He lived much of his life in Mexico City and, in his later years, in Cave Creek, Arizona, where his gallery preserves and promotes his legacy.