{"title":"Alentejo (1958-1967)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eESPIGA Pinto’s Alentejo works mark the beginning of his artistic language. Created between 1958 and 1967, this collection reflects the rural life, villages, figures, animals and landscapes of southern Portugal that shaped his earliest vision of the world. These works reveal the human and symbolic foundations that would continue to resonate throughout his later cosmic and geometric phases.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"horse-with-cart-cavalo-com-carro","title":"Horse with Cart (Cavalo com carro)","description":"\u003ch3 class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003eAbout this work\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003eMade in 1965, \u003cem\u003eHorse with Cart\u003c\/em\u003e belongs to ESPIGA Pinto’s early engagement with the rural imagery of the Alentejo. During this period, figures, animals, carts and village life became recurring points of reference in his work, forming part of a visual vocabulary that he would continue to develop in later decades.\u003cspan class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe woodcut shows how these subjects were already being treated with a degree of formal concentration. The horse and cart are not presented as a detailed narrative scene, but as a simplified and structured image. This balance between rural observation and symbolic reduction is important within ESPIGA Pinto’s wider \u003cem\u003eoeuvre\u003c\/em\u003e, particularly in the way later works would move between memory, geometry and emblematic form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs an early print, \u003cem\u003eHorse with Cart\u003c\/em\u003e offers a clear connection to the artist’s Alentejo roots and to the development of motifs that remained significant across his practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDetails\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist: ESPIGA Pinto\u003cbr\u003eTitle: \u003cem\u003eHorse with Cart (Cavalo com Carro)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDate: 1965\u003cbr\u003eMedium: Woodcut on paper\u003cbr\u003eDimensions: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e70.6 x 49.6 cm\u003cbr\u003eEdition: Trial proof\u003cbr\u003eSigned and dated by the artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe work presents in excellent overall condition, with no significant condition issues noted at the time of inspection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThis preliminary note does not replace a full physical condition report, available upon request.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e________________________\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eFRAME NOT INCLUDED.\u003cb id=\"docs-internal-guid-54304aff-7fff-6455-aa10-780d279b9845\"\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eThis artwork is sold unframed. Bespoke framing options and framing advice are available. Please contact us. Any frame, mount or room setting shown in images is for illustrative purposes only. Please check the stated artwork dimensions before ordering.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ESPIGA Pinto - Official Artist Estate Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53611579310427,"sku":null,"price":750.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1024\/1297\/6475\/files\/HORSE-CART.jpg?v=1785679612"},{"product_id":"manege-picadeiro","title":"Manège (Picadeiro)","description":"\u003ch3\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the work\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMade in 1963, \u003cstrong\u003eManège\u003c\/strong\u003e belongs to ESPIGA Pinto’s early Alentejo period, when drawing, engraving and sculpture were closely connected in the formation of his visual language. The work reflects a moment in which the artist was returning to the world of his childhood with what he later described as a different vision.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe horse was already becoming one of ESPIGA Pinto’s essential motifs. In his \u003cem\u003eInterview in Monologue\u003c\/em\u003e, he recalled being born in a house where horses passed the door each day and where there were stables nearby, later associating the animal with “beauty, shape and movement”. In \u003cstrong\u003eManège\u003c\/strong\u003e, that memory is not treated as simple recollection. The horse and rider are reduced to a strong arrangement of black form, cut line and open paper, giving the image an almost sculptural clarity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe title, with its reference to the riding arena, places the horse within a space of rhythm, discipline and controlled movement. This gives the work a distinct place among ESPIGA Pinto’s horse images: spare, direct and rooted in the early graphic language through which lived rural experience began to take on a lasting symbolic form. Another impression of this woodcut is held in the CAM Gulbenkian collection, underlining the work’s place within the artist’s recognised early printmaking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDetails\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist: ESPIGA Pinto\u003cbr\u003eTitle: \u003cem\u003eManège (Picadeiro)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDate: 1963\u003cbr\u003eMedium: Woodcut on paper\u003cbr\u003eDimensions: 47 x 56 cm\u003cbr\u003eEdition: Ed. Espiga, 29 of 50\u003cbr\u003eCollection note: Another impression is held in the CAM Gulbenkian collection\u003cbr\u003eSigned, dated and numbered by the artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003eThe paper displays soft, irregular cockling, or gentle wave-like undulation, throughout the unprinted areas and around the perimeter. This form of planar distortion is consistent with the paper’s response to fluctuations in ambient humidity over decades.\u003cspan class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA horizontal fold line is visible across the lower margin, with further fine linear impressions and handling creases, particularly in the upper-right and lower areas. Mild scattered brown spotting is present, principally in the margins, together with minor edge wear and small tears along the right edge. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe central printed image appears substantially flatter than the surrounding unprinted paper. The black impression remains dense, clearly defined and visually strong, preserving the work’s graphic impact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e________________________\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eFRAME NOT INCLUDED.\u003cb id=\"docs-internal-guid-54304aff-7fff-6455-aa10-780d279b9845\"\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eThis artwork is sold unframed. Bespoke framing options and framing advice are available. Please contact us. Any frame, mount or room setting shown in images is for illustrative purposes only. Please check the stated artwork dimensions before ordering.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ESPIGA Pinto - Official Artist Estate Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53613172818267,"sku":null,"price":1250.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1024\/1297\/6475\/files\/MANEGE.jpg?v=1785676062"},{"product_id":"country-woman-with-festive-banner-camponesa-com-pendao-festivo","title":"Country Woman with Festive Banner (Camponesa com Pendão Festivo)","description":"\u003ch3\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the work\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMade in 1962, \u003cstrong\u003eCountry Woman with Festive Banner\u003c\/strong\u003e belongs to ESPIGA Pinto’s early Alentejo period, shortly after his return from Lisbon, where he had studied at the Lisbon School of Fine Arts. Back in the Alentejo, he encountered the region not only through childhood memory, but through renewed adult attention: its rural labour, clothing, popular rituals, harvest feasts and religious-pagan village celebrations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe female figure is central to this work. ESPIGA often associated women with the forms, presences and continuities of his early life, from the family household to the peasant women who passed through the streets of Vila Viçosa. Here, the country woman carries a festive banner, linking the figure to the processional and ceremonial world of the Alentejo village. The image suggests a moment where daily life and ritual meet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eESPIGA’s interest in these festivities was not incidental. His research into Alentejo popular traditions is recorded in his photographic archive, and related imagery also appeared on the cover of \u003cem\u003eAlentejo\u003c\/em\u003e, the record by Michel Giacometti, the noted ethnographic researcher. Within the wider oeuvre, this linocut is therefore an important early example of how ESPIGA transformed lived observation and regional culture into a concise symbolic language.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDetails\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist: ESPIGA Pinto\u003cbr\u003eTitle: \u003cem\u003eCountry Woman with Festive Banner (Camponesa com pendão festivo)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDate: 1962\u003cbr\u003eMedium: Linocut on paper\u003cbr\u003eDimensions: 43.7 x 33 cm\u003cbr\u003eEdition: Ed. Espiga, trial proof\u003cbr\u003eSigned and dated by the artist.\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe work presents in excellent overall condition, with no significant condition issues noted at the time of inspection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e________________________\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eFRAME NOT INCLUDED.\u003cb id=\"docs-internal-guid-54304aff-7fff-6455-aa10-780d279b9845\"\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eThis artwork is sold unframed. Bespoke framing options and framing advice are available. Please contact us. Any frame, mount or room setting shown in images is for illustrative purposes only. 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