Edgar Negret was born in Popayan, Colombia, on October 11, 1920. Master Negret used to work with Industrial materials, processing and sometimes recovering different mechanical forms and turning them into exquisite’s pieces of Art, representing shapes from Nature, such as the Sun, a Flower, and a waterfall.During the 1940s, Negret attended the School of Fine Arts in Cali, Colombia.Initial works were, in stone, in patterns evocative of European modernists like Constantin Brancusi. Then, he met the sculptor Jorge Otaiza, who influenced Negret’s vision and introduced him to the modernist perspectives or ideas of other artists from that time. In 1949 Negret studied in New York and The Clay Club Center (Sculpture Center)visited, where he met the artists Louise Nevelson and Ellsworth Kelly. By the early 1950s, Negret departed to Paris, where he had the opportunity to experiment and absorb all the artistic absorb scenes from the city. He began working in metal, following the constructivism tradition. In 1955, the Museum of Modern Art acquired one piece from that time. Then, in 1963, in return o his native Country, Colombia, he won the Salon de Artistas Colombianos, becoming one of the most prominent Colombian sculptors of the 20th Century.Negret’s work where exhibited throughout the world during those years to mention some of them, It was awarded at the terminal de São Paulo (1965); at the Thirty-fourth Venice Biennial, he was awarded the David E. Bright Sculpture Prize; presented his sculptures at Documenta (1968) in Kassel; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1970); Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá (1971, 1975); Arts Club of Chicago (1972), and the Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas (1973); the Center for Inter-American Relations (now Americas Society) in 1976; the Contemporary Sculpture Center, Tokyo (1982); Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid (1983); and the Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City (1991)In 2010, he was awarded “Grado de Oficial” by order of the Congress of Colombia.Negret died on his 92nd birthday, October 11, 2012, in Bogotá, Colombia. 1 1- https://www.ascasogallery.com/artist/edgar-negret/?lang=es