THE ECHOES OF YESTERDAY

Carnival. Original lithographs. Buenos Aires. 1949.

In Folio (39 x 27.4 cm) Front cover, Title page, 1 h., plus 12 lithographs, index of plates and colophon. In its original folder, with its front cover somewhat faded. Otherwise, copy in good condition.

This is Folder number 5 of the series “Plates of the city of Buenos Aires”, initiated in 1947 by the local Municipality in the desire to revive through the plastic expression of lithography, “the aspects and moments of life beginning with those that most urgently need to be documented: that is, the survivals of a past that is disappearing absorbed by the demands of the present, of a present that constantly remakes the exterior panorama of Buenos Aires for us”.

Here, with a nostalgic look at the porteño carnival, with its “clumsy neighborhood murgas; the brilliance of the choirs, (and) the tinsel of the comparsas”.

Enrique de Larrañaga (1900 - 1956), recovered in his recognition in a retrospective exhibition at the National Museum of Fine Arts in 2014, was one of the most awarded artists in the salons of the 1930s, crowned with the 1936 Grand Prize Acquisition In his time, he was the clearest representative of a modernity with Spanish roots, but with his own language in the views of Madrid, where he remained from 1924 to 1930, with sustained trips through the regions. He was director of the Prilidiano Pueyrredón National School of Fine Arts during Peronism. A man from the Buenos Aires bohemia, he was one of the characters in the cultural life of the city, who crossed erudite art with popular culture.