José Márquez (1937) - The Clothes' Line

- Oil on canvas. Original canvas.

- In the suffocating architecture of the brick-and-concrete jungle, where the shadows from the cornices lurk like stone alligators, a miraculous vine rises that defies the soot’s gravity: the clothesline, a hemp vein that pumps the scent of soap over the abyss of the courtyard. From it, like wind-vines, come sheets so white they beat their cotton wings against the stale air, turning into domestic ghosts that practice a static flight toward the clouds.

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

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