Julio Larraz

In the 1970s, he began to paint and changed his signature to Julio Larraz.

• Name — Julio Fernández Larraz • Born — 12 March 1944 • Birthplace — Havana, Cuba • Other Names — * Julio Fernández Larraz • Julio Fernández • Julio Larraz • Occupation — * cartoonist • painter • sculptor

Julio Fernandez Larraz was born in Havana, Cuba on 12 March 1944. His family were owners of the Cuban newspaper La Discusión. In 1961, the year of the failed American invasion of Cuba, the family fled the island for Miami, Florida, later moving to Washington, D.C., and then to New York City. Larraz first worked as a political caricaturist and cartoonist, signing his work "Julio Fernandez". His caricatures of political figures such as Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir and Richard Nixon were published in Esquire magazine, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, Rolling Stone and The Washington Post. A caricature of Nixon as Louis XIV, captioned "L'état, c'est moi", was used on the cover of Time magazine. White House Enemies or How We Made the Dean's List (Publisher: Signet / New American Library, 1973) THE PERFECT WAGNERITE, A COMMENTARY ON THE NIBLUNG'S RING (Time-Life Records Special Edition, 1972) Why they call it politics: a guide to America's Government (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, second edition, 1974) The Saturday night special, and other guns with which Americans won the West, protected bootleg franchises, slew wildlife, robbed countless banks, shot husbands purposely and by mistake, and killed presidents—together with the debate over continuing same (New York, Charterhouse, 1973)

Julio Larraz's first solo exhibitions was in 1971 at the Pyramid Gallery in Washington D.C. An exhibition of his work was held at the Boca Raton Museum of Art in Boca Raton, Florida, in 1998.

In 1976, Larraz's work was chosen for Exhibition of Works by Candidates for Art Awards at the American Academy of Art and Letters/National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York. In 1985 Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain (FIAC) was seen at the Grand Palais, Paris; and in 1992 Exposición arte cubano: Pasado y presente obra importante was exhibited at Gary Nader Fine Art, Coral Gables, Florida.

Julio Larraz was recorded at birth as Julio César Ernesto Fernández Larraz. The authorities additionally record the headings Julio César Ernesto Fernandez Larraz, Julio César Ernesto Fernández Larraz, Julio Fernandez Larraz, Julio Fernández and Julio Cesar Ernesto Fernandez Larraz. His recorded language was Spanish.

Julio Larraz is recorded as artist, printmaker and sculptor.