JOSE LUIS SALINAS ''LA SORTIJA OR THE RING GAME'' MIXED MEDIA ON BOARD 1969
Artist - Jose Luis Salinas 1908 - 1995
Title - La Sortija - The Ring Game
Medium - Mixed media (Goauche and watercolour) on board, signed and dated 1969 at bottom right.
Size - 72 x 50cm
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.
In this picture a Cowboy or Gaucho is participating in Corrida de Sortija, a traditional sport of the Rio de la Plata area of South America.
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 Pagin
...as 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 ''Capitŕn 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 Joăo 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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Antique ID Number (AIDN): SA1001780
Dateline of this antique is 1960
Height is 72cm (28.3inches)Width is 50cm (19.7inches)Depth is 0cm (0.0inches)
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