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Alejo Vidal-Quadras Fondation
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Biography – The Early Years

Pilar Veiga de la Cuesta Alejo's mother

Pilar Veiga de la Cuesta
Alejo’s mother

Alejo Vidal-Quadras Veiga was born on April 12, 1919, in the upper bourgeoisie of Barcelona, Spain. Alejo and his elder brother Francisco Javier Vidal-Quadras Veiga receive a highly disciplined education.

Javier Vidal-Quadras y Villavecchia – retrato de Ramón Casas e restaurado por Alejo Vidal-Quadras

Javier Vidal-Quadras y Villavecchia by Ramón Casas, 1911. Restaured by Alejo in 1981

In 1924 their parents Javier Vidal-Quadras y Villavecchia and Pilar Veiga de la Cuesta, move with them to France. Alejo is eleven years old when they return to Spain.

 

 

 

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Fernando Ramos | Cláudia Marapodi - Design com Conteúdo