Luis Gowland Moreno, Argentine artist, oil on board, 50 x 24", 52 1/2 x 26 1/2", dated 1960 and titled " Disintigration".Luis Gowland Moreno was born in Madeira, Portugal, in 1902; he died in Buenos Aires in 1971. "He joined the Argentine Informalism movement. His work is characterized by urban themes: houses, squares and street scenes. Since 1939 he attended the National Hall. He won numerous awards and his works were incorporated into the main museums, such as the National Fine Arts, the Provincial of Santa Fe, the municipal of Cordoba and Mar del Plata. In 1963 he was invited by Jorge Romero Brest to exhibit at the National Museum of Fine Arts, together with Antonio Berni and Juan Del Prete" (9).From November 28 to December 20, 2002, took place in the gallery Principium sample "Papers of the ‘60s", in which participated Carlos Alonso, Ernesto Deira, Luis Gowland Moreno, Alberto Heredia, Kenneth Kemble, Rómulo Macció, Freddy Martinez Howard, Fernando Maza, Marta Minujin, Luis Felipe Noé, Rogelio Polesello, Mario Pucciarelli, Dalila Puzzovio, Emilio Renart, Josefina Robirosa, Jorge Roiger, Kasuya Sakai, Antonio Seguí, Grete Stern, Pablo Suarez, Clorindo Testa and Luis Wells.In "a look at the sixties" he claimed about it:"The contradictory and seductive 60s have been characterized as a period of great freedom and great hope, as the stage that marked the first major chapter of the global prominence of young people.""Their participants were bearers of the illusions of a society confident that change was indeed possible, desirable, and in some way inevitable.""Many witnesses of those years interpret them as a golden period of civilization, with technological and artistic achievements that forever modified many aspects of human life.""After the end of World War II and the effects of the post-war period have been mitigated, the world is plunging into a wave of widespread optimism. There were a number of profound changes related to the modernization of society.""They were years when everything seemed possible, and in turn conflicting years, both on the global and local scene. The 'swinging London' and Woodstock coexisted with the Cold War and Vietnam.""The world was ruled by some of the great figures born at the end of the previous century: de Gaulle, Churchill, Adenauer, Nehru, Nasser. Almost everyone would die in the sixties or the beginning of the next decade. Also in those years young John and Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Patricio Lumumba and Ernesto Guevara Lynch died violently. The great men and the great causes are of this time, the time of the great hopes in the transformation of reality. Perhaps it is the utopian values of then that generate a great nostalgia today.""The rebellious character was not limited to being the trait of an enlightened minority, but an element of great social expansion, present in countless people, places and situations.""The French May was canonized because it started from that great center of irradiation of intellectual prestige that was Paris, although the reality indicates that the youth rebellion did not turn on and off in their barricades.""In the Argentina of the sixties there were many moments of high artistic and cultural value. In those years the highest point is recorded in the growth curve of the local publishing industry. Today's magazines devoted large spaces to 'happenings' and culture was fashionable. There was a remarkable flourishing of various groups and movements with artistic and intellectual concerns of all kinds.""The Institute Di Tella was a complex generator of many artistic manifestations, was a beacon of experimentation and avant-garde and one of the main axes of cultural activity of that decade"."Television was also at a time of total fullness of its role, showing the world live the arrival of man on the moon. For the first time the Argentine audience received a satellite transmission and more than four million viewers were thrilled with Neil Armstrong's first steps on the desolate lunar surface and with his already historic phrase "This is only a small step taken by a man but it represents a great leap for humanity "."It would be unfair to the many artists who had already been working, to present this decade as an outbreak without roots in the recent past that although it meant a great openness in art and culture, it is undeniable that since the mid-fifties begins to gestate what would acquire a definitive profile in the Sixties"."In the catalogue of the exhibition ‘twentieth century Argentina, art and culture’, Raul Santana tells us very lucidly that ‘the Sixties, beyond any other consideration, remains paradigmatic, and in a dialectical game, is at the basis of the most lofty visions and artistic procedures of our day’ "."We have decided to present in our room a selection of works on paper by several artists chosen among the most representative of the sixties in our country. We are sure that this set of works reflects the great quality that they always had"."To evoke the sixties in all its aspects is a way of valuing all the positive that they have left us, and also a way to understand that no time spent was so much better than the time we have to live".The catalogue includes the biography of the artists. We transcribe the one that interests us especially:"LUIS Gowland MORENO (Funchal, Madeira Island, 1902 - Buenos Aires 1971). Painter. 1951, Biennial of Hispanic American Art of Madrid and 1956, exhibition '150 years of Argentine painting' made at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. Beginning in 1957, the search for informalist experiences began. 1963, he integrated the exhibition of Argentine Informalist art that toured several Spanish Capitals. That same year he exhibited at the MNBA invited by Romero Brest with Antonio Berni and Juan Del Prete. 1984, a retrospective of his work was held at the Palais de Glace " (10).

Condition: Needs Cleaning and there are a couple small areas where the painting has flaked