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Portraits of Pedro Eugenio Aramburu and Admiral Isaac F. Rojas.

  

Two cartoonish portraits of two protagonists of the fall of the government of Juan Domingo Perón. Ink on paper, mounted on cardboard, with the signature "B" in the lower section. Measures. P.E. Aramburu: 24.2 x 18.5 cm. I. F. Rojas: 24.4 x 16.6 cm. Both copies, with signs of having been hung on the wall - with some perforation in its upper section - and some stains. On the back indications for an edition.


In the portrait of Admiral Isaac F. Rojas, with a caricaturist's mastery, Blanca Cotta knew how to delineate a resounding expression in a few strokes. Black glasses and on them bushy eyebrows, almost vertical, a big nose and a sly smile escapes from her face with a beard of the day. She shirt, tie, and jacket with epaulettes. His military hat bears the insignia of his force, the Navy. A fervent anti-Peronist, he led, together with Eduardo Lonardi, the coup d'état -self-styled "Liberating Revolution"- in September 1955. He served as de facto vice president -with substitution of the constituent, executive and legislative power, the appointment of the Judicial Power and of the governments provincial - from 1955 to 1958, in the governments of Lonardi and Aramburu.


Contrary to the perverse grimace in the expression that Blanca Cotta gave to the caricature of Admiral Rojas, Aramburu's features show a neutrality typical of his civil and bourgeois appearance. He wears a suit, jacket and tie, and a handkerchief with his initial “A” embroidered on it. Let us remember that Pedro Eugenio Aramburu (Río Cuarto, Córdoba, 1903 - Timote, Province of Buenos Aires, 1970) was an Argentine military man and dictator. One of the main promoters of the self-styled “Liberating Revolution”, he overthrew the constitutional government of Juan Domingo Perón in 1955. Due to the weakness of the de facto government of President Eduardo Lonardi in the persecution of Peronism, the armed forces replaced him in the charge by Aramburu, who initiated a profound "de-Peronization of the country". In 1970 he was kidnapped and killed by the Montoneros guerrilla group.


Blanca Helena Cotta de Geronés (Buenos Aires, 1925 - 2019), better known as Blanca Cotta, was an Argentine cook, journalist, professor of letters, screenwriter, graphic humorist and cartoonist. She collaborated in her beginnings in Cara Sucia and Cascabel (1940s) and towards the end of the 1950s she participated in Tía Vicenta, signing as Cerebela. She began writing for Clarín in 1968, and around the same time she drew for Anteojito and Oro Patoruzú. She also combined graphic humor with her own cooking recipes for Mucho Gusto and in the Clarín magazine sections and the Ollas y Sartenes supplement of the same newspaper. She has published a large number of books on the subject, illustrated by herself. In addition, her collectible notebooks reached very high print runs.


S.O.XVIII-OSM

AUTHOR BLANCA COTTA

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