Sunny Day

Sunny Day is an oil painting with a theme characteristic of the artist:

the activity in the port of "La Boca" (Buenos Aires, Argentina),

loading and unloading, and the workers in their daily work.

Through the development of colour and light, the author instills life in his work.

We can observe the importance of the impasto and strong brushstrokes.

The artist was abandoned as a child and then adopted by the woman from Entre Ríos, Justina Molina, and the coalman Manuel Chinchela. It was precisely with coal that he began to draw and portray his neighbors from the district and port of "La Boca".

This work was acquired by the municipality of La Plata in 1959, at the end of an individual exhibition of the author in the Golden Hall of the municipality.

La Boca is my workshop, my refuge and my role model. Everything I did and all I attained was a reward to my loyalty. In my life and in my art, I always stayed true to my people, to my port and my neighborhood.

Why haven't I painted another port, if there are better ones? Because I only find a source of inspiration when I paint in my land.

Benito Quinquela Martín