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Conflicto Entre Gato y Niño

Name: Conflicto Entre Gato y Niño
Brand: RoGallery
SKU: 80387

Francisco Amighetti

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Costa Rican (1907–1998)

Date: 1969
Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 14/50
Size: 13.5 x 21 in. (34.29 x 53.34 cm)
Frame Size: 20 x 26 inches

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about Conflicto Entre Gato y Niño

The simple title of this piece, "Conflict Between Cat and Child", really doesn’t do justice to the story being told here.

This woodcut by Francisco Amighetti shows a boy with a face covered in scratch marks eye to eye with a hissing cat, ears backward and tail fluffed. This hilarious piece is signed, titled, and numbered by the artist in pencil.

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About The Artist: Francisco Amighetti

Francisco Amighetti was born June 1, 1907, in San Jose, Costa Rica. He attended the main high school for boys in San Jose called the Liceo de Coasta Rica. Here, his artistic talent became apparent, and his art teachers encouraged him to enroll in the Academia de Bella Artes. At the institute, directed by Spanish painter Tomas Povedano, he studied drawing and painting, and soon began to gain recognition through his cartoons published in...

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About The Medium: Lithograph

A print created using flat stones or metal plates. The artist creates a lithograph by drawing an image directly onto the printing element using materials like lithograph crayons or special grease pencils. After this, the drawing is transferred from the plate to the paper in multiples. A lithograph will not have dots when examined with a magnifying glass.

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