Ivan Wasth Rodrigues

Ivan Wasth Rodrigues (São Paulo, July 1, 1927 - December 10, 2007) was a Brazilian painter and comics artist.

[2] He started his professional career as a book illustrator for the Melhoramentos publishing house and doing advertising design.

[3] In the field of comics, he designed a two-part book for EBAL publishing house on the history of Brazil and the adaptation of the classic Casa-Grande & Senzala, by Gilberto Freire.

[4][5] For Freire's book, which talks about the period of slavery in Brazil, Wasth Rodrigues researched for five months the paintings of Jean-Baptiste Debret (one of the first artists to portray Brazilian society in the early 19th century).

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