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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 411509, member: 5833&quot;]If there were only 10, that makes it special.&nbsp; He&#039;s an esteemed painter.&nbsp; It was not clear to me that Alonso was one of the paintings in this exhibition.&nbsp; If so, limited prints of the paintings may have been made in connection with it:</p><p><br /></p><p>Francisco Rodón painted portraits of many iconic figures of the era, both Puerto Ricans and other nationalities. Some of these were collected in a series of paintings later exhibited under the title Personajes. Among the portraits were Luis Muñoz Marín (1974) — which presented the former governor in his residence in Trujillo Alto, late in life, with a contemplative and tired expression; <i>Rómulo Betancourt</i> (1977-1979) — in which he presented the Venezuelan politician with his face disfigured by an explosives attack — and <i>Juan Rulfo o Pedro Páramo</i> — a portrait in black, white and tones of gray that was unveiled at the Bar Association in 1985, after the writer’s death. He also painted the portraits of ballet dancers Alicia Alonso and Vaslav Nijinsky, Puerto Rican educator and literati Nilita Vientós Alonso and Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, among others.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://enciclopediapr.org/en/encyclopedia/rodon-elizalde-francisco/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://enciclopediapr.org/en/encyclopedia/rodon-elizalde-francisco/" rel="nofollow">https://enciclopediapr.org/en/encyclopedia/rodon-elizalde-francisco/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Alicia Alonso,&nbsp; for those who do not know the name offhand, was a famous Cuban prima ballerina who continued to dance even when she was ancient &amp; virtually blind.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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