Accordionist boy. Santa Fe, 1934-1945.

Etching on paper. Measures. Paper: 22.1 x 19.2 cm. Plate: 12.7 x 9.7 cm. Printed inside the engraving “Gustave Cochet / Paint 1934 Gravé 1945”, and in graphite pencil “2/50 - Boy accordionist - (and the signature of) Gustavo Cochet”.

A young man in shorts plays the accordion. Although Cochet portrays him from the front, the boy timidly looks to the side, towards the window that illuminates his face and the scene in general, by the way, dark. Cochet used a painting of his from 1934 as a source for this engraving. That year he ended a short stay in Argentina, to move back with his family to Barcelona, ​​so the image could have been made in one of the two cities. Finally, after fighting in the Spanish civil war and going into exile in a French town, he definitely returns to our country. In those years he brought drawings and paintings from his past around the world to metal engraving, such is the case of this Chico bandoneon player, transformed into etching in 1945 in Santa Fe, the year he won the First Acquisition Prize at the Santa Fe Hall. A copy of this same engraving is kept in the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya in Barcelona.