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Sofia Gandarias was born in Guernica.
Diploma in Art form the San Fernando School of Fine Arts, Madrid

1978 “Kokoschka, Malher and Alma”, first painting for “presences”

1981/82 Trip to the Middle East, portrait of noor of Jordan.

1982/85 Several portraits for “presences”: Roa Bastos, Lorca, Asturias, Bergamínn, Borges, Carpentier, Carranza, Rosalía de Castro, Cortázar, Dalí, Ruben Dario, Rómulo Gallegos, Gui,araes Rosa, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, Juan Carlos Onetti, Ortega, Octavio Paz, Juan Rulfo, Cesar Vallejo. All these portraits exhibited under the title “Presences”, in Spain and in Several European capitals.

1985 Trip to Mexico

1986 “Presences” exhibition in Madrid, Brussels and Antwerp.

1990 Portrait of Melina Mercouri and Antoni Clavle.
Portraits Of Nureyev.

1991/92 Portrait of Bacon, then of Diego Rivera an Frida Kalho.

1992 She starts Sarajevo’s Tryptych.
Self-portrait with Delvalux.

1993 Choc de civilations.
Portrait of Yehudi Menuhim
Direction Femmes – Frida Kahlo Appears again.
Portrait of Aligi Sassu and Elenita Olivares.
Starts the cycle of Gorila Kumba.

1993/94 Six paintings dedicated to Brel.

1994 Portraits of Hugo Claus, François Mitterrand, Emile Veranneman, Carlos Fuentes, Barbara Hendriks, Trip of Mexico.

1995 Portraits of Rafael Alberti, Fernando Pessoa, Saramago, Maria Casares, Albert Camus.
O ano do nascimiento de Ricardo Reis Starts the cycle L’Argent and the cycle Albert Camus et le Spectateur.
Donates to the town of Sarajevo 4 works on the War of Sarajevo.

1996 Portraits Of Edith Piaf an Yves Montand, René Cassin and Sami Nair.

1997 Portrait of Semprún.
Cycle La Poésie and Les Iris, and Les Réves de Buñuel and Le Chat Mondain.

1998 Cycle Les oiseaux en Prêt-à-porter et haute couture, Kumba hot-line, La Chatte mondaine.

1999 Guernica triptych.

2000 Strop-Ahead/Les Monnaies, cycle.
Primo Levi, Remembrance.

.2001/02 Serie NY 9/11

.2002  Portrait of Jorge Edwards, Iris.

.2002/3 Maria Callas-Retratos, portraits, Iris.

.2004/5 Messaggio-Dolore, Madrid capital del dolor.