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Montebello, Arthème Galerie, Paris, May 2010 Roger de Montebello was born in Paris in 1964. He started painting at the age of seventeen after viewing a Jackson Pollock exhibition at Centre George Pompidou. The show revealed to him a new universe, although he never painted like Pollock. That same year, he travelled to Provence with his family. That trip also turned out to be very influential, as it was a discovery of the Mediterranean sun and nature. Two years later, he moved to Seville and studied painting basics at the Facultad de Bellas Artes de Sevilla. During that time he saw and was captured by bullfighting and its beauty. He graduated from Harvard University in 1988, where he studied art history and studio art, and kept on painting during his military service as a paratrooper and through his years at Science-Po Paris. In 1992, after a decisive stay in Venice, he had his first solo show, organized in Paris by 2 friends, Montjoye and d'Humières. Soon after, he moved to Venice and started painting full time. He now lives and works in Paris, Venice and Seville.
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