Pedro Portugal,

Box set by artist Pedro Portugal, comprising 5 silkscreen prints titled “Homage to Women” featuring poems by Charles Gilbert, Pablo Neruda, Louis Aragon, Ruben Bareiro Sguier,and Emilio Scampini
- “Woman Who Is OursToday and Ours Tomorrow,” signed and dated 1975 in the lower right corner,titled at the bottom center, artist’s proof
- “Tu carne es tierraque sua madure,” signed and dated 1975 in the lower right corner, titled at thebottom center, artist’s proof
- “Deux bras ont suffi,” signed and dated 1975 lower right, titled lower center,artist’s proof
- “Entre el cristal y elvino,” signed and dated 1975 in the lower right corner, titled at the bottom center,artist’s proof.
- “La contadime sisporglias,” signed and dated 1975 lower right, titled lowercenter, artist’s proof
Black Plexiglas cover,embossed, depicting a breast
Album presented by PedroFiori, art critic; collection compiled by the artist himself and completed in April 1975 at the Grafico studio in Milan
A few foxing spots; in goodoverall condition
Dimensions of the silkscreen prints: 45 x 45 cm; total weight of the box set approximately 6 kg
Pedro PORTUGAL(1937–2005): Born in La Paz, Pedro Portugal left Bolivia at the age of eight for Argentina, following his mother, who had become a widow. In 1957, he enrolled at the University of Tucumán and explored all forms of art: oilpainting, sculpture, printmaking… In the early 1970s, he arrived in Europe, first to Spain, then to France, where he met a woman from Cholet who would become his wife. They settled in the Mauges region in 1972. At that time, while traveling in Italy, he used vivid colors to depict quasi-abstract subjects,sometimes headless, almost psychedelic bodies; one of his work swas exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris. Beginning in the 1980s,Pedro Portugal began painting in a more dreamlike style.