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Tres figuras [Three Figures]
Tres figuras [Three Figures]

Tres figuras [Three Figures]

Primary (1932–)
NationalityArgentinean, South America
Date1970
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsFramed: 47 5/8 × 47 11/16 in. (120.9 × 121.2 cm)
Sight: 47 1/4 × 47 1/4 in. (120 × 120 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Archer M. Huntington Museum Fund, P1970.6.1
Rights Statement
Collection AreaLatin American Art
Object numberP1970.6.1
On View
On view
Locations
  • exhibition  BMA, Gallery, C9 - Susman Galleries
Label Text
Ricardo Garabito has earned a reputation as “The Secret Artist,” both for maintaining a low public profile and for his reluctance to exhibit his work, preferring his solitary studio to café debates with the artists of his generation. His style is a fusion of influences, both international and traditionally Argentine, which he melds with a sense of irony as well as a metaphysical vision of the world around him. Tres figuras is one of his earliest experiments with the serial repetition of identical people, faces, or still life objects on the same canvas, a distinctive motif that he embraced in the mid-1970s. Here, although indistinguishably dressed, each of these three men is painted with singular facial features. Yet, despite their physical proximity to one another, even overlapping within the space of the canvas, each seems eerily isolated, entirely alone. Garabito creates a hazy environment in which his Three Figures uncannily pass one another by as if each was invisible to the others, like specters.  
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