Lot 273
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JUAN LUIS BLANES

Details
JUAN LUIS BLANES

El Gaucho

signed with initials JLB lower left--oil on canvas
20 7/8 x 15in. (53.1 x 38cm.)
Provenance
Private collection, Buenos Aires
Exhibited
Buenos Aires, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Juan Manuel Blanes, Oct., 1941, n.n.

Lot Essay

Juan Luis was the son of the great Uruguayan landscape painter Juan Manuel Blanes. Father and son worked very closely and the influence of th efather is evident in this work. It bears all the characteristics of Juan Manuel's famed gauchos.