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Alfredo Sánchez Larrauri (1938-2012) was an artist and architect known for his drawings and paintings. Born in Mexico City in 1938 to Jorge Sánchez and Elvira Larrauri, he attended a militarised college, which played a significant role in his upbringing and later on influenced his artwork and style. After completing his basic education in Mexico City, he moved to Guadalajara —the capital city of Jalisco state in western Mexico— where he studied Architecture at University of Guadalajara (1960-1964). While studying architecture, at the age of 21, he started drawing and painting professionally and took artistic advise from tutors Jorge Martínez and Olivier Seguin, amongst others. He did not take formal art lessons. Instead, he walked through Jalisco’s towns drawing people and any interesting sights he came across in his surroundings. As he perfected the art of drawing, he held his first exhibition at the Casa de la Cultura Jalisciense (1961), where he showcased his work for four consecutive years (1960-1964). After completing his university studies he practised architecture for several years, mainly in Guadalajara. After a few exhibitions, during his time at university, he was spotted by José Luis Cuevas, who took Larrauri under his wings and expressed about him the following: “I met a group of artist in Guadalajara, amongst them Alfredo Larrauri, magnificent drawer”. Under the encouragement of Cuevas, Larrauri held his first major solo exhibition at Galería Mexicana de Arte in Zona Rosa, Mexico City (1966). During that time, Larrauri met with writers such as Federico Campbell, Homero Aridjis, Carlos Monsivais, Luis Guillermo Piazza, Jorge Arturo Ojeda and others. He also met frequently with Eraclio Zepeda, with whom collaborated illustrating Zepeda’s Un tango para Hilvanando, a short tale about a tailor (Hilvanando), who falls in love with the tango dance and longs a trip to Río de la Plata, the birthplace of the popular dance. This short story is not unlike Larrauri’s, who became a highly enthusiast tango dancer and eventually fulfilled his dreams of visiting Argentina. By the early seventies, he started to develop a more personal style and soon began to gain modest recognition. By 1974 he returned to Mexico City, where he remained the rest of his life. During much of his career, he illustrated numerous magazines and publications in Mexico and abroad.

Biography
José Alfredo Sánchez Larrauri was born in Mexico City in 1938,

Career
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Works

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