Édgar Negret

Édgar Negret Dueñas (October 11, 1920 – October 11, 2012) was a Colombian abstract sculptor.

Negret was born in Popayán, Colombia. He attended the School of Fine Arts in Cali, Colombia, where he started his first studies in the year 1938 with the founder and teacher Jesus Maria Espinosa. Initially working in stone in styles reminiscent of European modernists like Jean Arp and Constantin Brâncuși. By the early 1950s, he began working in metal in constructivist tradition.

In 1955, his art was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art. In 1963, he won the Salón de Artistas Colombianos, and therein became one of the most prominent Colombian sculptors of the 20th century. In 1968, he was awarded the David E. Bright Sculpture Prize, at the Thirty-fourth Venice Biennial. In 1985, the Museum Negret opened. In 2010, he was awarded “Grado de Oficial” by order of the Congress of Colombia.^{[citation needed]} Negret died, on his 92nd birthday, in Bogotá, Colombia.

In 2016, Google Doodle commemorated his 96th birthday.

• 1963 – XV Salón de Artistas Colombianos
• 1967 – XIX Salón de Artistas Colombianos
• 1968 – David E. Bright Sculpture Prize
• 1975 – Guggenheim Fellowship
• 1997 – Best International Artist at ARCO
• 1998 – Andrés Bello Order
• 2010 – Grado de Oficial by the Congress of Colombia

• Gran Máscara (Escalera) (1972), Cali, Colombia
• Flor Sanky (1991), Bogotá, Colombia
• No title (1992), Valencia, Spain
• Sol rojo (1995), Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
• El Maíz (1996), Sonsón, Colombia
• La gran cascada (2000), Bogotá, Colombia
• El sol (2005), Rionegro, Colombia
• Various sculptures by Édgar Negret in La Tertulia Museum