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Enrique Senis Oliver  

Enrique Senís-Oliver, born in Valencia, Spain, in 1935, cultivated his interest in art since his childhood at the Marist Brothers School. He studied anatomy at the San Fernando School of Fine Arts in Madrid, which helped him create his future works. In 1957, he dedicated himself exclusively to the arts and traveled to Paris, where he realized that the French capital was not the ideal place to launch his career. Senís-Oliver then traveled to Switzerland and painted his first serious portrait of Elvia Lefebre, Panama's Ambassador in Bern, followed by others in Brussels, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt and Rome. In Athens, where he lived for a year, he painted Aristotle Onassis, among other shipping industry executives and his families, including Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis.

In 1961, Senís-Oliver settled in New York, established himself as a neorealist painter and exhibited in the best art galleries in the city. He designed the interior and created a mural for a new ballet theater in New York's prestigious Lincoln Center in 1972, which took him almost two years to complete. In the winter of 1973, the wife of the President of the United States, Mrs. Betty Ford, opened the theater. After receiving rave reviews for the design and the mural, Senís-Oliver became a prominent figure in the New York art scene.

In 1992, he returned to his hometown and from November to December 1993, the Valencia City Council paid tribute to him with an anthological exhibition in the city museum, the Palacio de Marqués de Campos. Senís-Oliver stood out among his colleagues for his extensive resume, achievements and maturity in his work. He painted portraits of the society of Valencia, Madrid and Barcelona, ​​and completed a mural for the ceiling of the Polytechnic University library in 2000.

Currently, Enrique works on commission; If he is interested in commissioning your own custom artwork of his, please see our staff, and we will be happy to add you to the waiting list.