Juan Fernando Bastos

Juan Fernando Bastos (born 1958, Caracas Venezuela) is a noted Bolivian-American portrait artist who resides in Los Angeles, California. His society and celebrity portraits in oils and pastels are prominent examples of the revival of high end portraiture in a formal style reminiscent of John Singer Sargent. (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B05E2DE163AF934A35752C1A96F958260&scp=1&sq=Preserved%20in%20Oil&st=cse) Bastos' celebrity portraits have been featured as covers on numerous journals as well as in museums and state buildings and institutions (http://www.glreview.com/issue.php?issueid=20). He was a featured artist in the documentary "America Viva", which profiled portrait artists of the Organization of American States(http://www.oas.org/america_viva/eng/requestvideo.asp?sCodigo=03-011&sTitulo=Juan+Fernando+Bastos:Profile+of+a+Portrait+Artist).

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