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Colored pencils on paper. Measurements: 47 x 33.5 cm / 18.5 x 13.18 in. Signed work.

Synthetic invoice drawing, reminds us of the art of Pablo Picasso and Jean Cocteau. Made with colored pencils and with firm lines, it represents an exuberant Greco-Latin female profile, a male torso without arms and a reduced head -in the manner of the mannequins or study figures of Giorgio de Chirico- and on this figure, a hand in color yellow. On the sides, colored lines ending in knots frame the composition.

Santiago Cogorno (Buenos Aires, 1915, 2001), painter and draftsman, began with Raúl Soldi and continued studying with Atilio Bernasconi. He traveled to Europe where he studied between 1932 and 1935 at the Brera Academy in Milan, under the direction of Aldo Carpi. In 1949 he held his first personal exhibition at the Saint Moritz gallery (Switzerland), and continued in Basel, the São Paulo Biennial, in Milan, Florence, Genoa and Rome, in Paris, and in numerous Argentine galleries, among which he stands out the one made at the Witcomb Gallery, which was bought en bloc by a collector. He obtained the Palanza Prize (1956), the National Salon Honor Prize (1958), the Critics' Prize for the best artist of his generation (1966), and the Konex Prize (1982), among others. S.H.O-X