Samuel Mallo López (1905-2005) - Dinan Le Jerzual

Signed and titled by the artist on the bottom.

The work is presented framed (the frame shows some signs of use).

Dimensions of the artwork: 35 cm high x 49 cm wide

Frame measurements: 52 cm high x 67 cm wide

Good condition of the artwork's preservation

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Artist’s Biography:

Born in Buenos Aires on January 16, 1905 and died in 2005 in Temperley, province of Buenos Aires. Son of Galician immigrants, he graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts in 1924 with the title of Professor of Drawing and Decoration. In 1932 he earned the title of Doctor in Medicine, dedicating himself to homeopathy. But from 1937 he definitively devoted himself to the plastic arts, exhibiting without interruption throughout Argentina. He undertook study trips to Europe. His restlessness for art makes him stand out as an essayist, poet, critic, and lecturer. He attended the National Salon in 1929, the Rosario Salon in 1950, the Santa Fe Salon, the Tucumán Salon, the La Plata Salon, the San Fernando Salon, the Pergamino Salon and other collective exhibitions. He held solo exhibitions at Renom Gallery in Rosario in 1937, Teatro del Pueblo in 1946, Gente de Arte of Avellaneda in 1947, Müller Gallery from 1946 to 1948 and in 1951, at the Ateneo Popular de La Boca in 1949, at the Agrupación Impulso in 1950, Asociación Estímulo de Bellas Artes in 1951, Mendoza in 1951, the Casa de la Provincia de Buenos Aires in 1951, Bahía Blanca, Mar del Plata, in Santiago de Chile and Valparaíso in 1945, Washington and New York in 1952, ten solo exhibitions in Mexican cities in 1951 and 1953 and in Milan, Italy in 1953. Moved by the need for knowledge, in 1951 he undertook, with his wife, a seven-year journey by caravan across Europe, the Near East, Africa, and America, drawing and painting places and people, from a landscape of Istanbul to the Limay River, a portrait of Picasso to that of Quinquela Martín, with whom he was a great friend. From a plastic point of view, Mallo López left hundreds of drawings made in his workshop or travel sketches; in them the concept of form and compositional sense appear with unusual clarity. Regarding his painting, the handling of color, subtle temperatures and fine contrasts place us in the presence of a complete artist who steered his life along the paths of art despite the adversities he had to overcome. His work, with balanced composition, uses lines that give forms variety, a certain dynamism in composition and great expressiveness. He interposes lines to emphasize and mark areas, exalts different values in different lines to accentuate zones. A figurative painter of an expressive work that transmits sensations and feelings and that shows him as a skilled, vigorous, and spontaneous draftsman who appeals to certain space indicators to give the illusion of spatial perspective, Adriana Torres. Dictionary of Visual Artists of Argentina by Adrián Merlino. –