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“It is a lifelong study, recording The

First People of the World, and it is

particularly unique to be part of such

an ancient ancestry.”

It is not surprising that Ygartua

takes an interest in the First People

of the World as he himself does

come from an Indigenous Group of

People, The Basques from Northern “Over the years it really seems that a guiding

Spain, The Basque Country. hand is directing me to create a tableau, a

Ygartua, in the last 50 years has probably record of character portraying the Nomadic

created the most significant, important People of the World” Paul inspires

recordings of the First People of the World of adulation from his Collectors and admirers

the 20th and 21st century. including Edward Curtis’s daughter who

A series of paintings of the Indigenous People visited us in Scottsdale, Arizona in 1978,

of the World, the West Coast Natives along ecstatic about his renderings of Curtis’s

with their extraordinary work have been the exceptional photographic collection of the

most predominant and of equal importance, Native American Natives which Paul used

the Africans, the Mexican Natives-the Incas as subject matter over many years from

and Mayans, the Peruvian Natives, the Native 1970 until present day.

American and South American Natives, the

Basque People, India and the Semitic Peoples Curitis’s daughter was particularly

of ancient Southwestern Asia. elated that her Father’s work would also

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