Large oil on canvas painting, in an octagonal silvered frame. Depicting Spanish ship arriving in the New World. Signed "V.Puig" at the bottom.
Vicente Puig (1882-1965) was a Spanish painter who lived and worked in Uruguay and Argentina. He was a Modernist pioneer and a teacher to many notable artists of the century. Puig specialized in portraiture and the human form, however, he was also a landscaper and decorator.
Although Puig’s style was influenced by classicism (in scenarios and composition), its main characteristic is “planismo” (Spanish, flatness), developed after the chromaticism of the Fauve painters and other Post-Impressionists. The objects are represented through the clarity of the forms with the use of pure color on the entire surface.