Eddy Novarro
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Eddy Novarro (c. 1926–2003[1]) (real Vasile Novaru) was a photographer, a collector, and a cosmopolitan. He dedicated his work to the great artists of the 20th century. Important painters and sculptors such as Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Hans Arp, Joseph Beuys and Robert Rauschenberg were among Novarro's friends. He photographed them repeatedly. At first, his first wife, Nana (Renate) Novarro (1940-1986), an artist too, was the one who made most of the appointments with the great artists for Eddy, and later on his last wife, Tatiana Grigorieva Novarro, managed the appointments. Eddy and Nana received paintings and the artists added "For Nana and Eddy" – today a respectful collection.
Novarro was of Romanian descent and was born in Bucharest 1926, Mother an artist, living in Aschkelon or Ashqelon, arabic عسقلان, Israel. Early on, the Yugoslav king bestowed upon him the title "Baron de Craiova" in recognition of his artistic achievements. After emigrating to Brazil via Italy in 1946, he settled in Rio de Janeiro.
