Biographical details to be confirmed · Textured painting

Fernando Pinto

There are artists of this name with public records, but we have not been able to confirm which of them signs these pieces. Of the three works held in the collection one can say what is visible: scenes of musicians — guitar, violin, piano — built up in raised paste, with thick black outlines and a saturated color that leaves not a millimetre of ground empty. The figures have smooth faces and greatly elongated limbs, and in two of them the signature reads «Pinto», drawn in yellow; the third carries a different rubric, also in yellow.