Background
Graciela Rodo Boulanger was born in 1935 La Paz, Bolivia. Her father was a businessman and art amateur and her mother was a concert pianist.
Graciela Rodo Boulanger's 'Jeu de billes' purchased at Bonhams Los Angeles for $9,760 in 2009.
Graciela Rodo Boulanger was born in 1935 La Paz, Bolivia. Her father was a businessman and art amateur and her mother was a concert pianist.
Graciela Rodo Boulanger was raised in the atmosphere of art and music since early childhood. She gave her first piano recitals in 1950.
Boulanger studied etching and printmaking in Chile, Vienna, and Paris. Johnny Friedlaender was one of her mentors, and a famous Belgian engraver and sculptor Rene Carcan was one of her fellows.
The start of Graciela Rodo Boulanger’s career of an artist can be counted from 1953 when she exhibited for the first time in Vienna and Salzburg. Passionate both about music and pictural art, she made a final choice in favor of painting by the age of twenty-two.
In 1960, Boulanger had success at the First Latin American Xylography Competition while exhibiting her artworks in Argentina. The first exhibitions in the United States six years later coincided with the publications of the debut volumes of her engravings and etchings. By 1968, Boulanger established her own etching studio.
In 1979, Boulanger was named an official artist for the International Year of the Child poster, and a couple of her tapestries were presented in the hall of the United Nations General Assembly. The retrospective of Boulanger’s paintings was organized in 1983 by the Museum of Modern Art of Latin America in Washington, D.C. Three years later, the artist received a commission from the Metropolitan Opera of New York for which she made a poster of Mozart’s The Magic Flute. That same year, her artworks were exhibited in the Art Gallery of Lincoln Center.
In 1993, one of Boulanger’s paintings was used by the World Federation of the UN Associations as illustrations for a stamp and a print on endangered species.
In 2006, the next retrospective of Boulanger’s works was organized at Gallery 444 in San Francisco.
During the course of her lifetime, Graciela Rodo Boulanger has participated in about 150 exhibitions in five continents.
Perito Blanco
Musica Nocturna
Les Trois Cavaliers
Le Tuc Tuc
La Mandoline
Voyage En Musique
Untitled
1970's French Acrobats Circus Harlequin Aquatint Color Modern Etching
Tout sur Scene
En Troiseme
Un Coq Pour Tatiana
The Trumpet
Pas de quatre
Le Petit Theatre
Oiseau Noir
Horn Player – Lahire
Andantino
Three Boys on a Bull
New Trio
Sextet
Soccer Player
La Course
Symphonie
Voyage de Noces
Graciela Rodo Boulanger married a French man in 1966. The family produced a daughter named Sandra.