(b. Cajabamba, Peru, 1888; d. Lima, Peru, 1956).
From 1908 Sabogal visited Europe and North Africa before studying at the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires. From 1913 to 1918 he taught art in Jujuy. He returned briefly to Buenos Aires before spending six months in Cuzco, where he painted scenes of Cuzco and her inhabitants and thus pioneered Indigenism or Indigenismo. The works from this period were successfully exhibited in 1919 at the Casa Brandes, Lima. In 1920 he began teaching at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes, Lima, becoming Director in 1932; his 'resignation' in 1943 was the result of a quarrel with the minister of education. A short visit to Mexico in 1922 and contacts with Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros and the exposure to their nativeism, nationalism and social realism was an influence on his work. He was involved with Jose Carlos Mariategui's review, Amauta (1926-30), which gave him a political framework in
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