Candombe. 1933.
Oil on cardboard.
Bottom left signed and dated. With title and number, as well as with an artist's label inscribed "N° 12 / Serie XIII.E.e" on the reverse. 24 x 64.3 cm (9.4 x 25.3 in).
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• Pedro Figari was one of the most important artists in Uruguay and all of Latin America in the 1920s.
• Candombe, an Afro-Latin American form of dance, is one of Figari's preferred subjects as it offered him lively and colorful motifs.
• Figari's works are in important international collections, including the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, the Art Museum of the Americas, Washington D.C. and the Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

PROVENANCE: Collection János Peter Kramer, Buenos Aires.
Private collection (acquired from the above).

EXHIBITION: Premio internacional - premio nacional, Instituto Torcuato di Tella, Centro de Artes Visuales, Buenos Aires, May 17 - June 4, 1967, cat. no. 26 (with a label on the reverse).