Angel Varsi 1920 1994 Drawing Caminito Buenos Aires Argentina Working Class

• Art Measures Approximately:
• 8“ Tall
• 12“ Wide
• Frame Measures Approximately:
• 12.5“ Tall
• 16.5“ Wide
• 1“ Deep
• Frame could use a slight touch up.
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• He was born in La Boca on October 28, 1920 and died in his neighborhood and hometown on 
• July 12, 1994. Self-taught painter from the La Boca School. He held individual exhibitions at 
• La Farola de La Boca, Municipality of Lanús, Residencial Chaillon, Ateneo Popular de La Boca, 
• Shell Argentina Sociedad Anónima and Galería de Arte Ariadna. He attended group exhibitions 
• at the Wilde Rotary Club, Instituto Madre de los Inmigrantes, Caminito Art Gallery, Quinqueliano 
• Cultural Institute, Friends of Calle Olavarría, La Rioja School of Crafts and Agrupación Impulso. 
• In his paintings he shows those streets of La Boca that he saw as he grew up and that cradled 
• his dreams as a teenager, and that today he reflects in his works, with an astonishing reality, 
• playing with green and red, yellow and purple, with white and blue, in the same way he did 
• when he was little. In addition to its streets, Angel Varsi presents us with the corners of Boca, 
• those picturesque little houses made of wood and sheet metal, so faithful in their creation that
•  at times it seems to be there. Painter full of creative talent, self-taught, and when the 
• Great Master Benito Quinquela Martín introduced him to me, he said: He has a natural gift 
• and God has given him beauty so that he can use it; He is already placed on the line of victory; 
• and if Quinquela says it, don't you think we can applaud Varsi, a comment by Nelly Quirós in 
• the Nuestra Gente audition on Radio Excélsior on July 15, 1970. His corners of Boca, his 
• streets in the neighborhood where he was born, have the authenticity of the authentic artist. 
• He adores wooden houses and their tenants, which is why in his paintings he gives so much 
• life to the poor men who live in the tenements. Everyone is aware that there is a fellow 
• human being who thinks of them, lives like them, and assumes that in some way they can 
• be saved from overcrowding and also saved from having a miserable death, Pedro Mario Degregori. 
• Biography published on the back of this work translated.