Roberto Guardia Berdecio (20 October 1910–1996) was a Bolivian-born artist and a significant contributor to the important political and cultural art movement in Mexico during the 1950s and 1960s.
Early life
Berdecio was born in Sucre, Bolivia.
Career
Berdecio worked in New York City in the 1930s with David Alfaro Siqueiros. Berdecio moved to Mexico in the late 1940s where he continued his career in art. He painted murals and portraits, created lithographs and artistic explorations into the fourth dimension. Berdecio's archives, which outlined his collaboration with David Alfaro Siquieros in New York and Mexico, were purchased by the Getty Museum in 1995. He died in La Paz, Bolivia in 1996.
Personal life
Berdecio married Marion Davis Berdecio.