Boy from the Paraná

This work won the 1st Sculpture Prize in the 1942 National Exhibition of Fine Arts.

“Boy from the Paraná River” is a 64.56 in. sculpture made in bronze, in which the expressiveness of the boy and the vivid gesture of holding a fish are depicted in an extremely pure plastic structure, with smooth muscles in the movement of arms and flexion of legs, whereas the light seems to highlight a still wet body. Since 1978, it is held at the Juan B. Castagnino Municipal Museum of Fine Art.