José Martín Hidalgo (1943) - Portrait de Clown à la Cigarette

- Oil on canvas. Original canvas. Presentation documents for art competition on the back. Old restorations.

- With a crude brushstroke and cubist heritage, Martín Hidalgo captures in this youth portrait the very essence of picaresque wit and disillusion. The languid gaze and the sly smile, underscored by the cigarette's grimace, compose a visual chant to the irony of someone who observes the world with skepticism. Under the tilted beret, the face fragments into cold planes, erecting a mask of modernity that mocks academic solemnity.

- Image dimensions without frame: 61 x 50 cm / 72 x 60 cm with exclusive custom frame.

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