{"product_id":"horse-with-festive-elements-cavalo-com-elementos-festivos","title":"Horse with Festive Elements (Cavalo com Elementos Festivos)","description":"\u003ch3\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the work\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCreated in 1968, \u003cem\u003eHorse with Festive Elements\u003c\/em\u003e stands at a pivotal moment in ESPIGA Pinto’s printmaking. The work belongs to the period immediately after his early Alentejo cycle, when motifs drawn from rural memory, popular festivity and the horse began to loosen from narrative setting and take on a more autonomous symbolic role.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRather than presenting the horse as part of a scene, ESPIGA places it within an arrangement of festive signs. These forms recall the visual culture of Alentejo village celebrations, including sacred and pagan processions, banners and ornamental structures. In this rare silkscreen print, those references are no longer documentary; they become part of the artist’s emerging language of movement, transformation and spatial invention, anticipating the cosmic direction of the 1970s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnother impression of this work was recently acquired by \u003cstrong\u003eMudas. Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Madeira\u003c\/strong\u003e. Following its acquisition, the work was included in an itinerant exhibition (2026) alongside figures such as Júlio Pomar, Menez, Paula Rego, Cruzeiro Seixas and Nikias Skapinakis, within a curatorial context tracing the evolution of Portuguese abstractionism and surrealism in the mid-to-late twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs a trial proof, this impression offers a particularly close connection to the development of the image. It marks a moment when ESPIGA Pinto was testing how the signs of the Alentejo could expand beyond their regional origin and enter the broader symbolic field that would define his cosmic period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDetails\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eArtist: ESPIGA Pinto\u003cbr\u003eTitle: \u003cem\u003eHorse with Festive Elements (Cavalo com Elementos Festivos)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDate: 1968\u003cbr\u003eMedium: Silkscreen on paper\u003cbr\u003eDimensions: 50 x 70 cm\u003cbr\u003eEdition: Ed. Espiga, trial proof\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eSigned and dated by the artist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eCollection note: Other impression is held in Mudas. Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Madeira\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe paper displays minor planar undulation at the lower-right corner and a small spot of blue pigment in the upper margin, above the printed image. These points are confined to the surrounding paper and do not detract from the work’s strong overall presentation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis preliminary note does not replace a full physical condition report, available upon request.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\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":53613343605083,"sku":null,"price":1250.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1024\/1297\/6475\/files\/CAVALO-ELEMENTOS-FESTIVOS.jpg?v=1785517768","url":"https:\/\/shop.espigapinto.com\/products\/horse-with-festive-elements-cavalo-com-elementos-festivos","provider":"The ESPIGA Estate Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}