Julio Larraz
Julio César Ernesto Fernández Larraz is a Cuban artist. He has lived in the United States since 1961. He first worked as a political caricaturist and cartoonist, signing his work Julio Fernandez. In the 1970s, he began to paint and changed his signature to Julio Larraz.
Life
Julio Fernandez Larraz was born in Havana, Cuba on 12 March 1944. His family were owners of the Cuban newspaper La Discusión. In 1961, the year of the failed American invasion of Cuba, the family fled the island for Miami, Florida, later moving to Washington, D.C., and then to New York City. Larraz first worked as a political caricaturist and cartoonist, signing his work "Julio Fernandez". His caricatures of political figures such as Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir and Richard Nixon were published in Esquire magazine, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine,Rolling Stone and The Washington Post. A caricature of Nixon as Louis XIV, captioned "L'état, c'est moi", was used on the cover of Time magazine.
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