José Márquez (1937) - The Clothes' Line

- Oil on canvas. Original canvas.

- In the suffocating architecture of the brick-and-concrete jungle, where the shadows of cornices lurk like stone alligators, a miraculous vine emerges that defies the gravity of soot: the clothesline, a hemp vein that pumps the scent of soap over the abyss of the courtyard. From it bloom, like wind orchids, stark white sheets that beat their cotton wings against the polluted air, becoming domestic ghosts that practice a static flight toward the clouds.

- Unframed image dimensions: 64 x 70 cm / 65 x 72 cm with exclusive custom frame.

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