Luis Caballero
Colombian · b. 1943
Painting, watercolour, pastel, and lithography
DESCRIPTION
Luis Caballero Holguín was a prominent Colombian artist known for his large-scale figurative works depicting masculine figures, often incorporating erotic and violent imagery. Raised in a conservative Catholic household in Bogotá, he studied at the University of Los Andes and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris. Influenced by artists like Francis Bacon and Willem de Kooning, he spent much of his career in Paris before returning to Bogotá, where he died in 1995.