Fernando Fader
Fernando Fader (11 April 1882 – 25 February 1935) was a French-born
Life and work
Fernando Fader was born in
He returned briefly to Buenos Aires, where his work was first exhibited at the Costa Salon in 1906. His landscapes quickly established him as a Post-impressionist painter at a time when local critics were still partial to Impressionism, however, and this motivated Fader to join other artists similarly out of favor with conservative Argentine audiences, such as Cesáreo Bernaldo de Quirós, the sculptor Rogelio Yrurtia and Martín Malharro (whose earlier, impressionist work had established the genre locally in 1902).
Their Nexus group struggled until around 1910, when Malharro's
His stay in Córdoba refocused his work along more Impressionistic lines, employing a greater use of sunlight contrasts. His new surroundings also gave him ample bucolic inspiration, and he created many of his most well-known works during this period, many of which romantically portrayed farm life. This productive period was cut short by a sudden worsening of Fader's breathing difficulties around 1921, which by then had become chronic asthma and precluded outdoor work. This led Fader to turn to still life, nudes and self-portraits, resulting in a third, distinct period in the artist's prolific body of work.
Though forced into reclusion by ill health, Fader never lost the following he had acquired during his heyday around 1915, and the National Academy of Fine Arts organized a retrospective of his work in 1924. The Buenos Aires community of art galleries organized a 1932 retrospective of 119 works in honor of Fader's 50 th birthday, by which time he was too ill to attend.
Fernando Fader died in
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Gallery
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Horses, 1904 -
Horse in Sunshine, 1904 -
Hemp Cloth, 1914 -
Winter Recedes, 1918 -
Rice Pudding Eaters, 1927 -
Goat Corral, 1926
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