Watercolor and ink, depicting five fantastical figures, signed and dated for 1935 at the lower right corner. Eduardo Solá Franco (b. 1915, Guayaquil, Ecuador – d. 1996, Santiago, Chile) was a prolific and multi-faceted artist, perhaps the most diverse Ecuador has ever produced. His staggering output included not only hundreds of paintings in a variety of styles but also sculpture, illustrations for magazines and film, stage scenery, plays, poetry and novels, choreographed ballets, award-winning experimental films and, perhaps most intriguing of all, a series of 14 illustrated diaries in which he recorded, “all that which I saw of interest and that attracted me: people, landscapes, cities, states of being, spectacles, parties, and fashion”. He was also a public figure—he served for years as Ecuador’s cultural attache in Rome—who mingled with artists, thinkers, and society figures in Europe, the United States, and South America.

Dimensions:Sight 15" x 12", the frame 17" x 14".

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Appears to be in excellent condition, not examined out of the frame.