Saying Goodbye to Isabel Echarri
The artist Isabel Echarri, winner of the 2022 Ramon Lull award, has died at her home in Formentera
It has been confirmed that the Spanish/French artist Isabel Echarri (Vera de Bidasoa, 1929) has passed away at her home in Formentera, where she has lived since leaving Paris. Echarri’s colourful and creative life revolved around art and was very much linked to Formentera, an island she had first visited in the early 1960s and where she later lived with her late husband Diego Echetverry.
Earlier this year, Echarri was presented the Ramon Llull Award by the Goverment of the Balearics in honour of her contribution as an artist. She was unable to attend the ceremony herself, but was represented by her friend Elena Ruiz, director of the Ibiza Museum of Contemporary Art, where Echarri’s most recent work can be viewed. Echarri’s daughter, Inés Echetverry, suggests that the family will host a a civil farewell in Formentera next week.
