HISTORY, ARTS AND CULTURE: HILARIO GALLERY OFFERS AN UNPRECEDENTED COLLECTION
The emblematic Buenos Aires gallery Hilario: Artes, Letras y Oficios will carry out the sixth edition of Hilario Experience. With a catalog that gathers more than two hundred paintings, photographs, archives and historical objects, maps, engravings and daguerreotypes, Hilario Experience VI uncovers chapters of Argentine and Latin American history and delivers them to the highest bidder.
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Over Callao Avenue at City of Buenos Aires (Argentina), the invaluable relics of Hilario Gallery await the decision of the hammer. Among these works of art, archives and objects, it is worth mentioning some.
In the first place, the photographic archive exhibited and for sale gathers names of international recognition. Such is the case of Martín Chambi Jiménez: two photographs taken in the first decades of the twentieth century that reveal the Peruvian photographer's gaze - of indigenous origin, by the way - in relation to the construction of the Inca landscape in the ruins of Machu Picchu (Three Windows Temple, 1928, and Compartment behind the Main Temple, 1928). A third vintage copy -Interior of the Cathedral, 1925- is also auctioned. For those who do not know him, Chambi was not only one of the most important photographers in Peru and Latin America, but he also a pioneer in the field of portrait photography.
Other important photographic works auctioned in this edition are, on the one hand, the F.C.M. Metlac Bridge, 1903, taken by Guillermo Kahlo, master of photography and father of the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo; on the other, an ambrotype of Juan José Olleros (1835 - 1865), an Argentine soldier who lost his life in the War of Paraguay; a contest that involved four Latin American nations between 1865 and 1870. And the temptation of the collectors of patrimonial photographs, one of the most important sets of military photography formed by a documentary archive of 38 original photographs -the first album of Antonio Pozzo through his trips in the Desert Campaign (1879), where he accompanied President Julio Argentino Roca.
Regarding the pictorial works offered by Hilario Experience VI, two portraits of the questioned military and governor, Juan Manuel de Rosas, draw attention. One of them is a sublime painting by the Italian portraitist Cayetano Descalzi (1809 - 1886).
Another work of great importance is a tempera produced in 1940 by the surrealist painter Juan Batlle Planas during the second part of his career, called The Mysteries by Ernesto B. Rodríguez. Filled with symbolisms and allusions to psychoanalysis and the Freudian effervescent theory, the work of Batlle Planas is an emblem of the Argentine surrealist current.
On the other hand - and perhaps the most striking piece of the auction – it is the personal file of Leopoldo Lugones: thousands of pages with his thoughts, doubts, fears and reflections that includes letters from colleagues, photographs and other personal documents. Basically, the pure manifestation of the creative processes and the restlessness that constituted one of the most influential poets and essayist in Argentine literature. "A real treasure that after more than eighty years of staying in the bosom of his family, goes on sale undivided, like the treasure that is," they maintain from the gallery.
Finally, Experience Hilario VI brings in this new edition a copy -the only complete- of the emblematic Multicolor magazine written by Jorge Luis Borges himself and edited by the newspaper Crítica in the years 1933/34, of the businessman Natalio Félix Botana Miralle at that time.
For all those fans and dedicated to art, history and the collection of objects that constitute culture, the auction that Hilario Gallery will hold on Tuesday May 14 is, without a doubt, an event that should attend.
HISTORY, ART AND CULTURE: HILARIO GALLERY OFFERS AN UNPRECEDENTED COLLECTION
The emblematic Buenos Aires gallery Hilario: Artes, Letras y Oficios will carry out the sixth edition of Hilario Experience. With a catalog that gathers more than two hundred paintings, photographs, archives and historical objects, maps, engravings and daguerreotypes, Hilario Experience VI uncovers chapters of Argentine and Latin American history and delivers them to the highest bidder.
Over Callao Avenue at City of Buenos Aires (Argentina), the invaluable relics of Hilario Gallery await the decision of the hammer. Among these works of art, archives and objects, it is worth mentioning some.
In the first place, the photographic archive exhibited and for sale gathers names of international recognition. Such is the case of Martín Chambi Jiménez: two photographs taken in the first decades of the twentieth century that reveal the Peruvian photographer's gaze - of indigenous origin, by the way - in relation to the construction of the Inca landscape in the ruins of Machu Picchu (Three Windows Temple, 1928, and Compartment behind the Main Temple, 1928). A third vintage copy -Interior of the Cathedral, 1925- is also auctioned. For those who do not know him, Chambi was not only one of the most important photographers in Peru and Latin America, but he also a pioneer in the field of portrait photography.
Other important photographic works auctioned in this edition are, on the one hand, the F.C.M. Metlac Bridge, 1903, taken by Guillermo Kahlo, master of photography and father of the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo; on the other, an ambrotype of Juan José Olleros (1835 - 1865), an Argentine soldier who lost his life in the War of Paraguay; a contest that involved four Latin American nations between 1865 and 1870. And the temptation of the collectors of patrimonial photographs, one of the most important sets of military photography formed by a documentary archive of 38 original photographs -the first album of Antonio Pozzo through his trips in the Desert Campaign (1879), where he accompanied President Julio Argentino Roca.
Regarding the pictorial works offered by Hilario Experience VI, two portraits of the questioned military and governor, Juan Manuel de Rosas, draw attention. One of them is a sublime painting by the Italian portraitist Cayetano Descalzi (1809 - 1886).
Another work of great importance is a tempera produced in 1940 by the surrealist painter Juan Batlle Planas during the second part of his career, called The Mysteries by Ernesto B. Rodríguez. Filled with symbolisms and allusions to psychoanalysis and the Freudian effervescent theory, the work of Batlle Planas is an emblem of the Argentine surrealist current.
On the other hand - and perhaps the most stri
