Páez Vilaró remained active in European and African culture , as well . He remained close with numerous friends from his days in Paris in the late 1950s , particularly Brigitte Bardot and Pablo Picasso , and in 1967 , established a film production company ( " Dahlia " ) with the help of European industrialists Gerard Leclery and Gunther Sachs . He traveled in numerous West African nations to make a documentary , '' Batouk '' , with director Jean-Jacques Manigot and poet Aimé Césaire . The artist 's first marriage , to Madelón Rodríguez Gómez , though brief , produced three children . One of them , Carlos " Carlitos " Páez Rodríguez , would later join the Stella Maris College " Old Christians " Rugby team ; on 13 October 1972 , Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 carrying the team crashed in the forbidding Andes range , between Chile and Mendoza Province , Argentina . Páez Vilaró joined the search and rescue mission for the 45 passengers , of which 16 survived , including his son , with whom he was reunited shortly after their 23 December rescue . Páez Vilaró experienced difficulties in other areas of his life . He met Annette Deussen , an Argentine tourist , in 1976 , and she had his child in 1984 . Deussen was married to another man at the time , and the marriage dissolved in 1986 ; she and Páez Vilaró married in 1989 . Her former spouse , however , continued his legal fight for the child for over a decade , even after Páez Vilaró 's paternity was established by tests . The matter was ultimately resolved in the Páez Vilarós ' favor in 1999 . He continued to create murals and sculptures for various government offices , corporate headquarters , private homes , and other buildings . He created 12 murals in Argentina , 16 in Brazil , 4 in Chad , 3 in Chile , 4 in Gabon , 11 in the United States , and 30 in his native Uruguay , as well as a scattering of works elsewhere in Africa and in the Polynesian islands . He also designed a non-denominational chapel for a cemetery without crosses or headstones in San Isidro , Buenos Aires and rebuilt an abandoned house in nearby Tigre in 1989 in the manner of Casapueblo ; he considered the San Isidro chapel his " greatest work " . In his last years the artist divided his time between Casapueblo and " Bengala , " his Tigre residence
Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571
Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571
Carlos Páez Vilaró