Colts on the Pampa

Pedro Figari painted "Potros en la pampa" during his nine-year stay in Paris (between 1925 and 1934), in the complex scenario of interwar Europe. The work has been dated around 1930, the year in which the centenary of the Jura de la Constitución was celebrated in Uruguay, with a great display of gaucho iconography. As in many other works of those years, a very low and uninterrupted horizon crosses this composition, in which there is a notable contrast between the portion of sky that unfolds in its three quarters and the narrow strip of land in which the almost abstract figures of the multitude of foals adopt the value of a frieze.