Josefina Robirosa

Josefina Robirosa (26 May 1932 – 20 May 2022) was an Argentine artist known for her paintings, murals, and drawings. She is considered one of Argentina's most prominent women painters.

Biography Portrait of Robirosa (then known as Josefina Miguens) published in the exhibition catalogue for Siete pintores abstractos at Galería Pizarro, 1957. Josefina Robirosa was born in 1932 to an aristocratic Buenos Aires family. She grew up in the Palacio Sans Souci, a grand residence in the Lomas de San Isidro suburb.

Painting was her passion from a young age. She went on to study with and Elisabeth von Rendell. She was also a member of a group of artists associated with the Torcuato di Tella Institute who revolutionized the artistic understanding of Argentina in the 1960s.

She had two children with her first husband, the sociologist José Enrique Miguens. Her second husband was the sculptor Jorge Michel.

Robirosa died in 2022, less than a week shy of her 90th birthday.