Haunting Bueno portrait locks in real human hair
In a relatively short period from 1959-64, the Spanish-Italian Realist Xavier Bueno (1915-79) created his most recognisable works: a series of melancholic and haunting portraits of children. For Bueno these ‘Bambini’ portraits symbolised a “humiliated and oppressed humanity”.
One such portrait, Ragazza Seduto (1964), was offered recently at Berkshire saleroom Dawson’s (20%…