Cecilia de Torres, Ltd.

Puerto, 1954, Oil on board, 22 x 35½ in. 55,8 x 90 cm.

Locomotora negra y roja, 1958, Oil on board, 26⅜ x 30¾ in. 67 x 78 cm.

Iglesia constructiva, 1958, Oil on board, 15¾ x 12¼ in. 39,5 x 31 cm.

Escritura, 1970, Ink and watercolor on paper, 8½ x 10¼ in. 21,6 x 26 cm.

Botella, 1979, Oil on wood, 32¼ x 8⅛ in. 62 x 21 cm.

Pailós in Horacio Torres' studio, 1965

Born in Galicia, Spain, in 1918 his family immigrated to Uruguay in 1920 and settled in Montevideo.  Pailós studied at the Circulo de Bellas Artes with Guillermo Laborde and José Cuneo and at an art exhibition in 1942, he met Torres-García and was invited to visit T-G’s studio.  In 1943, he joined the Taller Torres-García and continued working and teaching in the Taller’s workshop school through the 1960s.  In 1968, he won the First Prize for Sculpture in the Salón nacional de artes plásticas.  Pailós has created many cement reliefs for private and public spaces and his sculptures grace many of Montevideo’s parks and plazas.  He has shown extensively throughout Latin America and in 1991 was honored by the Spanish regional government of Galicia with an exhibition in Santiago de Compostela and the commission of a granite sculpture for the gardens of its University. In 2004, the artist passed away in Montevideo.