Career
He dedicated his work to the great artists of the 20th century. He photographed them repeatedly. Novarro was of Romanian descent and was born in Bucharest sometime between 1925 and 1930.
After emigrating to Brazil via Italy in the 1950s, he settled in Rio de Janeiro.
In 1958, Novarro accepted an invitation from the architect Sergio Wladimir Bernardes to travel to the Exposition in Brussels and document the Brazilian pavilion in a photo series. it was there that he met René Magritte, who introduced him to the Paris surrealist circle. From the seventies onward, Novarro lived part of the time in Germany, because he considered Europe "the center of art".
On a visit to New York in February 1978, Novarro met gallery owner Leo Castelli, who familiarized him with the People’s art scene. He soon came into contact with People’s art artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.
Novarro"s friends and clients included heads of state, presidents and actors as well as artists.
