JOSÉ SAINZ CAMARERO (Burgos, 2nd half of the 19th... Lot 46

JOSÉ SAINZ CAMARERO (Burgos, 2nd half of the 19th century - active in Buenos Aires, early 20th century). "Sisters picking flowers". 1909. Oil on canvas. Signed "J. Sainz Camarero" and dated in the lower right corner. Measurements: 149 x 75 cm; 216 x 97 cm (frame). Two elegant women have gone out to pick flowers in a spring morning. One of them, seated on a rock next to a wooden wall, gives a bouquet of roses to her friend (or perhaps sister, given the similarity of their faces). The vertical format provides ample space for the blue of the sky, whose light is reflected in the cheerful dresses and candid flesh tones. The contrasting qualities of the spring foliage are also rendered with meticulous strokes, to which the fragrant chromatic ranges are adjusted. The painter José Sainz Camarero appears in the catalogue "Art and emigration: Spanish painting in Buenos Aires, 1880-1939", written by Ana María Fernández García. It indicates his Spanish origin and his stay in Argentina at the end of the 19th century, where he specialised in portraits on glass and in oil. In "El arte español en la Argentina, 1890-1960", written by Patricia Artundo and Roberto Amigo Cerisola. Fundación Espigas 2006, and in "Primeros modernos en Buenos Aires, 1876-1896". Laura Malosetti Costa, 2007. ?