Abstracción formas planas III
1954, Óleo sobre madera 203 x 75,5 cm
Juan Del Prete (Italy, 1897-Argentina, 1987)
A self-taught artist, he explored matter and color in compositions that alternate between figuration and abstraction. He held his first solo show in 1926 and won a scholarship to travel to Paris in 1929; he joined the avant-garde and became a member of the Abstraction-Création group there. Back in Buenos Aires, he presented the first exhibition of non-figurative art in Argentina. He embraced an informalist aesthetic in the fifties. He received many awards, including the International Grand Prix in Brussels in 1958.