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Sergio de Castro was born on 15 September 1922 in Buenos Aires. He was both a composer and a painter. Sergio de Castro was awarded a grant by the French government and settled permanently in Paris in 1949.

From then on, he retired from his activities as a composer to devote himself to painting and stained-glass work. He was soon exhibited in Parisian galleries: his first solo exhibition took place in 1952 at the Galerie Jeanne Castel , where he presented a collection of still lifes painted using egg tempera – a technique that Sergio de Castro was beginning to use, inspired by the Italian …