“Punta seca”. 1940.

Drypoint etching on paper. Paper measures: 35.2 x 28.1 cm. Signed and titled by the artist in graphite pencil. Former Alfredo González Garaño collection.

Portrait of a young woman. The synthetic invoice and the deep gaze of large eyes recall the works of Lino Enea Spilimbergo and Antonio Berni.

Aída Vaisman (Warsaw, Poland, 1909-Buenos Aires, 1940) was a painter and engraver who settled in Argentina in 1925. She studied with Emilio Centurión and for four years at the Painting Workshop of the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes “Ernesto de the Cárcova”. Despite his short life – he died at the age of 31 – he participated in the National Hall in 1936 and 1940. He received the Acquisition Prize at the Hall of the Provincial Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires in 1936 and in 1940 the Engraving Prize. . In 1941 her teachers and classmates organized a posthumous exhibition with her works through the Society of Argentine Plastic Artists. In 1947, the Sociedad Hebraica Argentina held an exhibition with her paintings and engravings, and in 1968 the Club de la Estampa paid tribute to her with an exhibition of her engravings “of strange beauty” –according to what the catalog defines–, held at the PROAR gallery. She is a figurative and realistic style artist, she cultivated the landscape and the portrait. The National Museum of Fine Arts preserves two engravings of her authorship, Standing Woman and Half Body of a Semi-Nude Woman.