Iván Tovar, Artist, Painter, Sculptor

Iván Tovar (1942-2020) was born in San Francisco de Macoris, Dominican Republic, where he began to forge his artistic personality at a young age.




Tovar studied fine arts at the National School of Santo Domingo, and during this time, he would meet with many European artists, that had emigrated because of the catastrophic times.

In 1963, he moved to Paris where he achieved his greatest successes as an artist, becoming as one of the most important contemporary painters in Europe.

Tovar has exhibited in Luxembourg, Stockholm, Lisbon and New York, among many other imprtant art meccas.