Luis Ouvrard was born in Rosario in 1899. His parents came from Périgord, a former French province, an imaginary region to which he would recurrently return. He worked mostly as a restorer of paintings, sculptures, religious images and dolls. He also gave classes of color in art. On Sundays he would paint portraits, still lives, landscapes and figures. After his retirement in the mid-1950s, his work underwent a radical change. Being a typical painter of still lives, Ouvrard considered that the key to his art lay in his relationship with the objects on the canvas, with which he established a permanent bond of intimacy and reflection. What he painted was an in fact an uninterrupted conversation with the treasures around him.
Ouvrard: una galaxia de caleidoscópicos fragmentos
