2 Women By Mariano Otéro

Style: French School, late 20th century. Condition: Very good. Technique: Pastel on paper. Other: Signed and located in the upper right corner. Dimensions: 43 x 37 cm. Dimensions with frame: 75 x 70 cm. Shipping within France: €40. Other shipping options: Please contact us. Mariano Otero 1942 - 2019. Painter Mariano Otero was a painter, sculptor, and serigrapher. Spanish, born in Madrid on August 11, 1942, died on July 9, 2019, in Rennes. In 1956, he and his family joined his father, a Republican who had fled the Franco regime in 1947, in Rennes, where he spent most of his life. After studying at the Regional School of Fine Arts in Rennes, he graduated in painting in 1962. He founded the Atelier des Trois (Workshop of the Three) with his brother Antonio and his sister-in-law Clotilde Vautier, also painters, and they exhibited together in numerous Breton galleries from the 1960s onwards. Mariano Otero continued to paint until the end of his life, exhibiting in France, Spain, and many countries around the world. From 1992, his work, primarily figurative, gave pride of place to women through portraits, nudes, tango scenes, bar scenes, and more, using highly sensitive oil paintings and pastels. A representative oil painting of his work, Isabelle in a White Shirt, from 1962, is held at the Museum of Fine Arts in Rennes.