Rodolfo Alvarez Santalo' Artwork valuations, appraisals and auction estimates

Rodolfo Alvarez Santalo was born in Larache in 1933 and died in Granada in 2008. In 1968, Alvarez Santalo worked at the Hospital de la Merced in Osuna as a doctor-urologist. Read the full biography

Rodolfo Alvarez Santalo was born in Larache in 1933 and died in Granada in 2008. In 1968, Alvarez Santalo worked at the Hospital de la Merced in Osuna as a doctor-urologist. Although he was self-taught, he had a deep knowledge of art history and looked at the covers of novels illustrated by Riera Rojas and Peñarroya. He was part of the Malaga school of painters with Chicano, Barbadillo, Peinado, Brinkman and Alberca. During the Spanish political transition, Alvarez Santalo created satirical cartoons on ABC de Sevilla between 1976-1979. In the following years, he was the author of numerous posters for the Foundation for Culture of the Municipality of Osuna, of which he was also cultural advisor, as well as creating works for the Ministry of Culture and the Environment of the Council of Andalusia.
In his painting, Alvarez Santalo reinterpreted Spain's dramatic past, through the great characters of Spanish history and culture. He painted characters such as Dalí, Picasso, Manolete, Sánchez Mejías and Machado Álvarez in an expressionist way, also including some surreal and cubist elements. Santalò died in Granada in 2008.