Jar with flowers. 1948.

Oil on canvas, signed. Measurements: 60 x 44 cm. Framed artwork.

Wonderful still life, unusual in Antonio Berni's production. Let us remember that being the Argentine artist with the highest market price, this painter from Rosario mainly developed portraits, landscapes and surreal scenes and scenes of social and political commitment. Devoid of that search in the unconscious or the manifestation of social injustices, we find it here representing the purity of form. A glass vase holds a large bouquet of flowers, poppies; one of them, solitary, rests on the wooden table. However, the language used for this still life is the same that the master displays in his art, realism, in a vibrant harmony of colors. A special work for collectors seeking the exceptional. In 1948, Berni exhibited an outstanding individual exhibition in Rosario, at the Renom Gallery, at the Sociedad Hebraica Argentina, and at the Antú Gallery in Buenos Aires.

Antonio Berni (Rosario, 1905 - Buenos Aires, 1981), painter, engraver and muralist, began his approach to art at a very early age, as an apprentice in a stained glass workshop, and in the field of painting at the Center Catalá in Rosario . At the age of 15 he exhibited paintings at the Mari Hall, and at 18 at the Witcomb Gallery in Buenos Aires, already receiving rave reviews by then. He studied in Madrid and Paris, and upon his return his insertion in the local art world was definitive. He reflected in his creations the social problems of the 1930s in Argentina, and the terrible international context marked by Nazism, fascism, the Spanish civil war and the economic crisis. He did so in portraiture and in scenes that capture daily life, such as Primeros Pasos in 1936, a work that won the 1940 National Fine Arts Exhibition Prize, currently in the National Museum of Fine Arts. Figura was the First Prize at the XXX National Salon (1940) and Lily, the Grand Acquisition Prize at the XXXIII National Salon (1943). He was followed by endless awards and national and foreign exhibitions. He was a member of the National Academy of Fine Arts, and the year after his death, the first edition of the Konex Awards awarded him the distinction of Honor.