JOSE LUIS SALINAS ''COWBOYS HUNTING GUANACOS '' MIXED MEDIA 1969
Artist - Jose Luis Salinas 1908 - 1995
Title - Cowboys hunting Guanacos
Medium - Mixed media (Goauche and watercolour) on board, signed and dated 1969 at bottom right.
Size - 50 x 72cm
This is a superb large size mixed media on board by the celebrated Argentiniam (working in USA) artist Jose Luis Salinas, his work has appeared in numerous books and syndicated comic strips worldwide.
The Guanacos in the picture were almost hunted to extinction in the late 19th century mainly for their hides.
The guanaco is the wild relative of the llama, and is one of the largest terrestrial mammals found in South America, standing between 1-1.3m in height at its shoulder.
Both the guanaco and the vicuña – another relative to the llama, and thought to be the wild ancestor of the alpaca – are camelids. The Camelidae family consists of only seven extant (living) species: the three Camelus species and domesticated
...animals (dromedary camels, Bactrian camels and wild Bactrian camels) and the four Lama species and domesticated animals (guanaco, vicuña, llama and alpaca).
This is one of 6 paintings by the artist we are posting today.
The painting is in very good condition and ready to hang.
Provenance: The Tryon Gallery, Dover Street, London
José Luis Salinas 1908 -1985
José Luis Salinas worked in the advertising field starting in 1929 for some of Argentina''s biggest agencies. His earliest work appeared in El Tony and Paginas de Columba. Seven years later, he created his first sucessful comic series, ''Hernán el Corsario'', which appeared in the pages of Patoruzu. This was soon followed by numerous series, like ''Capitàn Tormenta'', ''La Costa de Marfil'', ''Miguel Strogoff'', ''Los Tres Mosqueteros'', and others. For El Hogar, Salinas drew comic adaptations of popular literature. Salinas was strongly influenced by Alex Raymond.
In 1949, Salinas moved to the United States, where he joined King Features. For this syndicate, he illustrated the newspaper strip of O''Henry''s ''Cisco Kid'' from 1951 to 1968. During this period, he also drew the humorous series ''Ellos'' (1957), later continued by João Mottini. After ''Cisco Kid'', Salinas focused on painting and illustration work, only returning to comics in 1971 to do the ''Gunner'' strip with scripts by Alfredo Grassi. ''Gunner'' was later continued by Lucho Olivera and later Carlos Pedrazzini.
His son, Alberto Salinas, also became a comic artist. José Luis Salinas was a strong influence on Henk Alleman, Carlos Casalla, Julio Shimamoto, Marten Toonder and Primaggio Mantovi.
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Internal Reference: salinas 2
Antique ID Number (AIDN): SA1001775
Dateline of this antique is 1960
Height is 50cm (19.7inches)Width is 72cm (28.3inches)Depth is 0cm (0.0inches)
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