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Tropical Btrd 1960
Sun ,n 1he Moumain 1954 Oil on Canvas
Oil on Canvas 180 X 70 ,n

The Orange 1944
Oil on Canvas
60 X 81 In.
venture into abstraction which was tempting at the
same period Delaunay in Paris. Kandinsky in Moscow.
Mondrian in Amsterdam and Klee in Munich. One
could see at the Galerie Charpentier paintings, such as
Vallombrosa. Elan-Lumiere (1916) where the form had
justified itself without apparent reference to the
exterior world. His mind always alert. he travelled in
Germany, Austria. he came to Paris. he exhibited in
Italy and in Berlin at the famous gallery 'Der Sturm'.
In 1924 he returned to Buenos Aires. He was to have
stayed there only a few months but in fact he stayed
thirty years, elaborating a span of work which con­
stitutes one of the most singular experiences ever lived
by a painter.
Far from Europe and its aesthetic struggles. away from
the ideas and initiatives of which Paris was the active
centre. Pettoruti applied the principles of cubism
through his very own means and with an inflexible
will, intransigeance and logic. He abandoned it only
after having exhausted all its resources.
It is not Juan Gris who carried the intentions of the
first cubists to this ultimate consequence. who has
given cubism all the attributes of an accomplished
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