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René Portocarrero <br>
Retrato de Flora<br>
(<i>Portrait of Flora</i>), 1970<br>
gouache on heavy paper <br>
laid down on board<br>
27 ¾ x 20 ¾ inches<br></br>

“Women, like the city, have been an obsessive subject matter in Portocarrero’s painting… Toward the beginning of the 1970’s, Portocarrero returns to the theme in a novel fashion, as a result of a strict discipline he had been developing in his human figures. The women are now facing forward. Their large, wide-open eyes are like their center of gravity. All reference to the exterior world is eluded. Monumental, divested of all ornamentation, they are reduced to an elemental structure: the ample base of the torso, the fine line of the neck, the oval of the face. They are contemporary women, aristocratic and refined, that the artist has seen in passing.”
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Graziella Pogolotti and Ramón Vázquez Díaz, <i>René Portocarrero</i>, Editorial, Henschel, Berlin, 1987.

René Portocarrero
Retrato de Flora
(Portrait of Flora), 1970
gouache on heavy paper
laid down on board
27 ¾ x 20 ¾ inches

“Women, like the city, have been an obsessive subject matter in Portocarrero’s painting… Toward the beginning of the 1970’s, Portocarrero returns to the theme in a novel fashion, as a result of a strict discipline he had been developing in his human figures. The women are now facing forward. Their large, wide-open eyes are like their center of gravity. All reference to the exterior world is eluded. Monumental, divested of all ornamentation, they are reduced to an elemental structure: the ample base of the torso, the fine line of the neck, the oval of the face. They are contemporary women, aristocratic and refined, that the artist has seen in passing.”

Graziella Pogolotti and Ramón Vázquez Díaz, René Portocarrero, Editorial, Henschel, Berlin, 1987.

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