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Pencil on paper, then varnished. Measurements: 27.8 x 19.5 cm. Framed artwork.


Two children inhabit a room. The older sister holds the younger one with one hand, while she holds a bouquet of pink roses with the other. They are like collectible figurines, illustrations from the early 20th century. Above them a winged angel unfurls a veil, and from the only window of the bare room, along with a cloud, a swallow enters with a letter in its beak. Behind, in the distance, the moon watches with an inquisitive eye.


The intimate, everyday world, observed from a surrealist perspective, colors all of Ana Tarsia's work, and this beautiful drawing does not escape her favorite theme and style. The childish figures with a romantic sensibility contrast -and compensate- with the sordid atmosphere of the empty and dark room, elaborated with the subtle pencil technique, prejudicedly, a procedure that is also childish. The conclusion of the work was carried out with the same preciousness of the drawing. A layer of varnish gives it an ocher glaze while protecting it, exhibiting it in a frame without glass. The frame, in turn, continues the tone and perspective lines of the room, forming a whole with the drawing. In the theme, size and procedure of the work, the influences of two of her masters, greats of painting in our country, emerge: Aída Carballo and Juan Batlle Planas.


Ana Tarsia was born in Buenos Aires in 1931. She studied Fine Arts and perfected herself by attending the workshops of teachers Juan Batlle Planas, Aída Carballo and Demetrio Urruchúa. She has held exhibitions of her work since 1962 in Argentina and abroad in Germany, Mexico, Peru and the United States. She participated in international art fairs and in national and provincial salons, where she won various awards such as: First Prize in Drawing, "XV National Salon of Tucumán" in 1970; First Prize Diario Clarín, Peuser Gallery "National Drawing Show" in 1965 and Award of the Association of Advertising Promoters of Argentina (APPA), "Drawing Show" in 1962, among many others. In addition to painting, she has also worked on book illustration.



S.O.XIX - DGL
AUTHOR ANA TARSIA

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