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Artist: Héctor Poleo

Date: 1943

Technique: Oil On Canvas

An essential Venezuelan modern artist, Héctor Poleo drew on social realism and Mexican muralism. In the early nineteen- forties, after a number of trips to Andean Ecuador, Colombia, and—mostly—San Rafael de Mucuchíes in Andean Venezuela, he began including images of peasants from that region in his art (a theme in keeping with social realism and muralism). Both the title of