Medium: Oil
Support: Canvas
Artist: Benito Rebolledo Correa
Artist Dates: 1880-1964
Country of Origin: Chile
Title & Description: Hacendados mounted on a high Walking Horse fully adorned in silver threaded embroideries. The rider wears a Western style hat and clothing of blue and red with gold brocade, in a desert-like landscape with spikes and buttes.
Signature: LR
Date of Work: 1925
Frame: Later
Work Size: 16 x 16"
Frame Size: 20.75 x 20.75"
Weight: 3.8 pounds
Provenance: NY estate
Condition: Unlined, minor in-paint.
Artist Biography: Chilean painter born in Curicó on August 2, 1880 and died in Santiago on June 29, 1964. Landscape painter of seascapes and animals, vital and colourful, is one of the most prestigious transit to 20th-century American art, although his work remains the academic orientation absent in artists already announcing a greater autonomy of the pictorial language.Born in a humble home formed by Pedro Nolasco Rebolledo and María Correa, he became interested in art at a young age and studied painting, sculpture and drawing at night schools. At the age of fifteen he was already installed in Santiago where, besides learning the poster art and decorative painting techniques, lived with a group of artists and enlightened workers (the so-called Cologne Tolstoiana) working on issues of social realism and that shared political ideals of anarchic dye. From this period dates the first works of Rebolledo, imbued with the combative spirit that animated him and so expressive without bread and world titles. Both its further evolution towards the landscape, bright and natural as these samples more linked to their early social reality, approach you the Valencian painter Joaquín Sorolla, the artist who most influenced the young Chilean painter, Pedro Lira, Juan Francisco González and Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor, his teachers at the Academy of fine arts. However, knowledge and Rebolledo relationship with European art it achieved it only through reproductions and printed images, since, on several occasions, he refused offer of the Chilean Government to carry out stays of study in Paris and other cities of the continent.Independent spirit and impulsive temperament, he soon found its own style in his full dedication to painting, which he with the sport of boxing. He fled rather tenebrist trend of his fellow members of the generation of thirteen and, through a naturalistic technique in large-format oil paintings, reflected with vigorous colorful maternity, children, scenes depicting local customs of the countryside and beaches, animals (of low density plastic) and portraits (less notable production), as well as numerous still lifes of balanced composition and pleasant touch. Disdaining the theme, it was launched to capture Sun shapes and colors, introducing violent lights that underlined the volumes, in an easy to paint cut contours which, however, not melted with the atmosphere in the manner of the Impressionist artists (see Impressionism). Rebolledo stressed compositional simplicity of his works, in his drawing of broad brushstrokes that critics have perceived as free of theoretical concerns, instinctive, recreated in the surfaces rich and rough, accepting the impressionism. Some of its most essential elements are light, clear tones and thematic simplicity devoid of any significance.His first medal received it in the centenary Hall for her work sea laughter, and gained great recognition in the American continent with exhibitions, honours and awards. He was responsible for the restoration and copies for the Plafond of the Municipal Theatre and the ceiling of the Church of San Agustín religious scenes; in 1951 he was named illustrious son of Curicó, his native city and in 1959 received the national prize of art.Adverse to futurism, Rebolledo showed throughout his long career a broad mastery of drawing and composition and a great capacity to capture the effects of the Sun on the bodies of women and children in the midst of a joyful summer landscapes. Among his best-known works are faced the sea, walk on the sea, pickup and portrait of old..Chilean painter born in Curicó on 2 August 1880 and died in Santiago on 29 June 1964. Landscape painter of animals and marine life and colorful, is one of the most popular creators of the transit of the prestigious American art into the twentieth century, although his work is still present the academic guidance absent in artists who already announced a greater autonomy of the pictorial language. Born in a humble home formed by Pedro Nolasco Rebolledo and Mary Belt, became interested inthe art from a very young age, and course studies of painting, sculpture and drawing in the Night Schools. At the age of fifteen he was already installed in Santiago where, in addition to learning the techniques of signs and decorative paint, lived with a group of artists and workers illustrated (the so called Colonia Tolstoiana) that worked around the themes of social realism and with whom he shared political ideals of dye anarchic. Date from this period the first works of Rebolledo, imbued with the combative spirit that animated him and with titles such as expressive without bread and humanity. Both its later evolution toward the bright, natural landscape such as these samples more closely tied to the social reality of its inception, close to the Valencian artist Joaquín Sorolla, the artist that most influenced the young Chilean painter, above Pedro Lira, Juan Francisco González and Fernando Alvarez de Sotomayor, their teachers at the Academy of Bellas Artes. However, the knowledge and relationship of Rebolledo with European art is reached only through reproductions and printed images, because, on several occasions, rejected the offer of the Chilean government to make studying in Paris and other cities of the old continent. Independent-minded and impulsive temperament, soon found his own style in his full time to painting, that simultaneous with the sport of boxing. He fled the Tenebrist trend something of his fellow members of the Generation.Born Chilean painter in Curicó on August 2, 1880 and dead person in Santiago on June 29, 1964. Landscape painter of marine and animal, vital and coloristic, is one of the most prestigious creators of the transit of the American art about the XXth century, although in its work the orientation persists academicista absent in artists who were already announcing a major autonomy of the pictorial language. Born in a humble hearth formed by Pedro Nolasco Rebolledo and Maria Correa, he(she) was interested by the art from very young and studied studies of painting, sculpture and drawing in the Evening schools. At the age of fifteen it was already installed in Santiago where, in addition to learning the skills(technologies) of the cartelismo and the decorative painting, it coexisted with a group of artists and illustrated workers (the so called Cologne Tolstoiana) that were working concerning topics of social realism and with that he(she) shared political ideals of anarchic dye. Of this epoch they date the first works of Rebolledo, imbued with the combative spirit that was cheering him up and with qualifications as expressive as Without bread and Humanity. So much its later(posterior) evolution towards the luminous and natural scenery how are you you prove to be more tied to the social reality of its beginnings, they bring near to him to the Valencian painter Joaquín Sorolla, the artist that more there influenced the young Chilean painter, over Pedro Lira, Juan Francisco González and Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor, its teachers(masters) in the Academy of Fine Arts. Nevertheless, the knowledge and relation of Rebolledo with the European art reached it only across(through) reproductions and printed images, since, in several occasions, it rejected the offer of the Chilean government to realize study stays in Paris and other cities of the old continent. Of independent spirit and impulsive temperament, soon it found a proper style in its full dedication to the painting, which simultaneó with the sports practice of the boxing. There fled of the tendency some tenebrista of its integral partners of the Generation