Figari

About this book

An exhibition of a selection of the works of Pedro Figari (b. Montevideo 1861-1938) belonging to the acquis of the Blanes Museum. Figari was a trained lawyer, a politician, a teacher, an intellectual, an author, a journalist who did not start painting until age 60, however He is seen as one of the most important painters of Latin America that developed a personal and distinctive painting language linked to the European post-impressionism. He painted between 1918 and 1938. Although he started painting late, he produced a large collection of almost four thousand paintings during those 20 years." --Page 130.