he won a first award to be an exhibition of his work at the Ateneo de Caracas, which was then presented in the gallery Katia Granoff in Paris, France. In early 1940, he began his Período Sepia, which corresponds to a set of canvases painted on the coast and in the port of La Guaira in which brown tones are dominant in landscapes of land and sea. He subsequently suffered a period of depression following a psychotic breakdown which forced confinement in "San Jorge" sanatorium from "José María Finol". Once recovered, he worked in a different style. From that moment, he took refuge in a magical universe, around objects and dolls created by him, gave birth to the last and delirious expressionist stage of his work figurative period characterized by the use of materials such as chalk, crayons and a theatrical fantasy that became more and more uncontrollable but, through a drawing that aspired to academic correctness, sought to restore the emotional balance of Reverón. Selected works (c. 1933) (1939) (1940) References Further reading External links 2007 Reverón exhibition at the MOMA Noelia Sastre, "Reverón encandila a Nueva York" Newspaper El Universal 1889 births 1954 deaths People from Caracas 20th-century Venezuelan painters 20th-century Venezuelan male artists Burials at the National Pantheon of Venezuela Male painters Death in Caracas