Large oil on canvas painting, in an octagonal silvered frame. Depicting Eve with a parrot in a paradise garden. 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.
Puig’s works have received various prizes and have been displayed in a number of museums around the world. He was a professor and one of the leaders of the Fine Arts in Argentina and Uruguay. Among his most famous students are artists José Luis Zorrilla, Antonio Pena, Marina Bengoechea, and many others... In 1950, he was declared a “Favorite Son” of Barcelona.