Untitled (The Fallen Angel)

Juan Batlle Planas was an Argentine painter and draughtsman whose work bridged Surrealism and abstraction in the postwar period. Working primarily in oil and ink, he developed a distinctive visual language of biomorphic forms and gestural mark-making that suggested psychological states without narrative content. Active in Buenos Aires during the 1940s and 1950s, Batlle Planas became a significant figure in Argentine modernism, influencing the direction of abstract art in Latin America.

Gerona, Spain