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Young Peasant Woman - César Calvo de Araújo (Yurimaguas, 1910 - Lima, 1970) LATIN AMERICAN AVANT-GARDES - LATIN AMERICAN FIGURATIVE ART. Oil on canvas, dimensions: 102 x 91 cm. 123 x 108 cm framed. An important and exceptional oil portrait on canvas. César Calvo de Araujo was a painter and writer who dedicated himself to depicting his native land, where he lived, alternating with stays in the Peruvian capital, Lima, and other countries. He frequently held exhibitions in Lima, always focusing on themes from the Amazon rainforest region. He also visited the city of Arequipa in the 1960s, as noted by historian Hélard Fuentes Pastor. The art of César Calvo de Araujo belongs to narrative and figurative realism. He drew his scenes directly from life in the jungle or the port city of Iquitos and other places in the Amazon region; his painting is characterized by humid gray tones. In 2015, a retrospective of Calvo de Araujo's work was held at the British Cultural Center in Lima, curated by Christian Bendayán. His best-known book is Paiche, described by himself in its prologue as a socialist novel, written in a mixture of formal Spanish and Amazonian dialectal Spanish. PROVENANCE: Private collection of Latin American avant-garde works, Spain.