Eligio Pichardo

He enrolled in the National School of Fine Arts in Santo Domingo in 1945, studying under José Vela Zanetti and alongside Clara Ledesma and Gilberto Hernández Ortega.

His early work was greatly influenced by Dominican artists Vela Zanetti, Jaime Colson and Darío Suro.

He participated in important biennial art exhibitions held throughout the world, including São Paulo, Madrid and Paris.

Three years later he received a scholarship from the Instituto de Cultura Hispánica to study in Madrid.

He won the Santo Domingo Biennial in 1958 with his painting El Sacrificio del Chivo (Sacrifice of the Goat).