Erró (born Guðmundur Guðmundsson in 1932 in

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, Iceland) is a

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and painter, who is best known for his painted pop art collages of images from comic books and advertisements."Have you heard of the Lichtenstein of Iceland?"
, Artspace, Retrieved 30 July 2018. He lives in France and Spain. He was previously married to Myriam Bat-Yosef.

Career

Erró studied art in

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and in

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, and has resided in Paris, Thailand, and on the island of

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for most of his life. In 1989 he donated a large collection of his works to the Reykjavik Arts Museum, which has put part of it on permanent display and opened a website where the whole collection can be visited. An exhibition of his work, ''Variations on Animation,'' was presented by Galérie Louis Carré at

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in conjunction with the 2003 Los Angeles International Biennial. A major retrospective of his work was held at the Museum of Contemporary Art in

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(

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) in 2015. In 2010 he was accused of

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for copying his work uncredited and selling it.

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Portrait of Erró
by Braun-Vega 1932 births Living people Icelandic painters Postmodern artists Pop artists 20th-century Icelandic people Recipients of the Prince Eugen Medal Icelandic contemporary artists {{Iceland-painter-stub