Six works, oil on wood, By Holden Jara (Paraquay) Guarani Indians of Paraguay.They all have a label on the back that says Roberto Holden Jara.They are in excellent conditions.Measurements of the painting 16¨ x 12¨. 31x16 cmEach one has its original frame built in indigenous tacuara cane from Paraguay.

This is in very good condition.
ROBERTO HOLDEN JARA : A native of Asunción, he was born in 1899; His parents were the English Noel Holden and the Paraguayan Julia Jara. He did his first drawing and painting studies with Héctor Da Ponte, and continued them in Buenos Aires; and scholarship, in Madrid, Rome and Paris.
Returning after two years of studies, he offered an exhibition at the Paraguayan Gymnasium, in 1926. He participated in collective exhibitions at the Spring Salons, in Asunción, the Joint of Paraguayan Artists, in Buenos Aires; Biennial and Retrospective of Paraguayan Art, in São Paulo; likewise, he exhibited in numerous solo exhibitions in our capital.
To his initial themes of landscapes, portraits, and nudes, he incorporated scenes and figures of indigenous life taken from the works of Alto Paraná. From this period are some of his most accomplished themes, and what until then were only literary themes, come to the forefront of plastic expression through Holden Jara's brush, with exuberance of landscape, force of expression, colorful And beauty. The war put an end to this theme, and the artist went to Chaco wearing olive green with the rank of an officer. There, along with sketches and planes, his artist's brush captured in an almost ghostly vision, scenes from the combatants' bivouacs, against the backdrop of the rugged Chaco geography. They are perhaps the only expressions of art, of plastic beauty, of that terrible crossroads of two peoples.
The indigenous biases of the Chaco also occupied his dedication, with such force, that since then the theme of the Indian has been his almost exclusive source of inspiration. Such is the amount of his paintings that he intends to create an Indian Museum. A notable exhibition of his paintings of indigenous types, made with his peculiar water-pastel technique, was set up at the Salón de la Alianza Française in 1941. These exhibitions - individual and collective, local and international - had Holden Jara as one of their most representative artists. Some of his most successful paintings are: INDIA GUARAN?, CARRETERO GUAYAKI, MORENO DE OJOS VERDES, THE PORTRAIT OF JULIO CORREA, PAREHARA; these two, reproduced on philatelic stamps.
And one last contribution of great importance, the School of Fine Arts, of which he was the first Director and Professor. He passed away in February 1984.