Jar with flowers. 1947.

Oil on foam board, measures 64 x 53 cm / 25.19 x 20.86 in. Signed in the upper right corner. Framed work.

The still life with flowers was Marcos Tiglio's favorite genre. The present shows us a set of fleshy gardenias and hydrangeas, placed on a white semicircular vase. The circle formed by the flowers and the vase, located in the center of the composition, are balanced by the artist in the straightness of the shapes and brushstrokes of the rest of the work: the table, the door and other rectangular shapes. He also sought balance in the colors, between the whites, greens, blues and reds of the central figure, as opposed to the gray of the background, illuminated with a garish yellow. Magnificent resolution for the classic genre, in which the influence of his friend and his teacher Miguel Carlos Victorica is evident. From his teaching work at the Popular University of La Boca, he maintained the persistence of the pictorial tradition of the School of La Boca, the identity nucleus of Buenos Aires painting.

Marcos Tiglio (Buenos Aires, 1903 - 1976) was an Argentine painter. He was a disciple of Victorica, and in 1930 he graduated from the National School of Fine Arts. Since 1929 he has attended the National Hall and various provincial salons. He obtained in 1937 the Grierson Prize, in 1949 the First Prize in the Salon of Watercolorists, in 1963 the Second Prize in the National Salon. His first individual exhibition was held at the Nordiska Gallery in 1935. A retrospective exhibition of his work was held at the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires in 1963. It is represented at the National Museum of Fine Arts, Provincial Museums of: La Plata, Santa Fe, Córdoba, Mendoza, Salta. Abroad, his work is part of the National Museum of Israel. In 2017, the Quinquela Martín de la Boca Museum organized the Marcos Tiglio exhibition. The sensible reason.

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