Marisol Escobar

Marisol Escobar

Marisol Escobar (May 22, 1930 – April 30, 2016), otherwise known simply as Marisol, was a Venezuelan-American sculptor born in Paris, who lived and worked in New York City. She became world-famous in the mid-1960s, but lapsed into relative obscurity within a decade. She continued to create her artworks and returned to the limelight in the early 21st century, capped by a 2014 major retrospective show organized by the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marisol Escobar has received more than 252,193 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Marisol Escobar is the 203rd most popular sculptor (down from 129th in 2019), the 4,450th most popular biography from France (down from 2,989th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular French Sculptor.