Erró (born Guðmundur Guðmundsson in 1932 in Ólafsvík, 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.

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 Formentera 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. A major retrospective of his work was held at the Museum of Contemporary Art in

Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan language, Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, third-largest city and Urban area (France), second-largest metropolitan area of F ...

(

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) in 2015. In 2010 he was accused of plagiarism by Brian Bolland for copying his work uncredited and selling it.

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