(b Buenos Aires, 6 Dec 1879; d Buenos Aires, 4 March 1950). Argentine sculptor. He enrolled at the Escuela de la Sociedad Est?mulo de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, in 1898 and soon afterwards joined the studio of the sculptor Lucio Correa Morales (1852-1923). In 1899 he won a scholarship to study in Europe. In Paris he attended the studio of the sculptor Jules-F?lix Coutan, at the same time studying drawing at the Acad?mie Colarossi; he made studies of corpses in the morgue and acquired a great mastery of human anatomy. At the Salon in Paris in 1903 he exhibited The Sinners (see Prins), a major group of six female figures, influenced by Rodin's Burghers of Calais in its rhythmic arabesques, open treatment of line and soft modelling. In 1904 it was shown again at the World's Fair in St Louis, MO, where it was awarded a major prize, but he renounced both the prize and associated commission because of a controversy about his youth.
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