Luis Nunez Borda (Columbia 1872 - 1970). Columbian landscape with figures. Oil on canvas board . Framed. Signed lower right. Circa 1940 - 1950s.

Painting: 10" x 14" (25.5 cm x 35.5 cm)

Frame: 13" x 17" (33 cm x 43 cm)

PROVENANCE: Los Angeles collector.

CONDITION: Good condition. No prior restoration.NOTES / REFERENCES: Luis Nunez Borda was born in a house in the La Candelaria neighborhood of Bogota, Columbia in 1872. Belonging by birth to the highest social sphere of the time, Luis Nunez Borda rejected social figurative painting, typical of Bogota at that time. He developed an extremely intense social life within an intimate group in which artistic and cultural interests were emphasized. His introspective personality impacted on the challenge to make his pictorial and landscape paintings known outside of his close friends. By the 1930s the painter had participated in only three group exhibitions. Despite his extreme discretion in disseminating and making his work known, within his circles, his work was known not only for capturing the landscapes of Saba but for a peculiarity that stood out above its contemporaries: he painted the architecture of Santa Fe, still referring to previous works by renowned painters and engravers or to old plates that described corners of the old city, which no longer existed or were modified through time. So representative was his painting of Bogota in Santa Fe that when the Cabildo and the Bogota Council wanted to find a painter to illustrate the history of the city, as a tribute to it in its four hundred years, they chose Nunez Borda without requiring a contest. The crystallization of this tribute was carried out by Jose Vicente Ortega Ricaurte and Daniel Samper Ortega in a book that they published in 1938 containing 98 paintings by Luis Nunez Borda, which served to form the first individual exhibition of the painter. The paintings of the book of the quadricentennial of Bogota, made by the painter, slowly fell into oblivion. Part of the collection was burned on April 9, 1948 in the Casa de los Oidores and with the proper carelessness of state administrators the remaining paintings ended up hanging in the Council cafeteria. And in 1955 they were discharged by this institution.

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