Adolfo Bellocq

Adolfo Bellocq (born 1899, in Buenos Aires, Argentina; died 1972, in Buenos Aires) was an influential Argentine artist known for his lithographs.

Self-taught, Bellocq was appointed Director of the Lithography Workshop at Buenos Aires' renown Ernersto de la Cárcova Beaux Arts School in 1928. Soon earning his first awards for his his evocative work portraying harsh working conditions then prevailing in Buenos Aires' southside slaughterhouses, Bellocq parlayed this accomplishment into the first Argentine Lithography Exposition, in 1931.

Contributing to Buenos Aires' premier art periodical at the time, "Claridád", he began working closely with a number of the magazine's other contributors, forming what became known at the "Boedo Group" (named after the southside avenue where "Claridád" was published).

Bellocq drew the attention of Buenos Aires art patrons like Francisco Colombo and Eduardo Bullrich and was awarded a silver medal at the Paris International Art Exposition of 1937; but, though Colombo and Bullrich financed the curation of over 400 examples, over 2000 of Bellocq's lithographs were lost over the years, due to his having made them on newsprint and untrated wooden planks.

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