The Peruvian journalist and art critic Clodoaldo López Merino, using the pseudonym Clodo Aldo, writes about José Sabogal, the founder of Peruvian indigenist painting, on the occasion of his forthcoming exhibitions in Buenos Aires (Sociedad Amigos del Arte, 1928) and Montevideo (Uruguay). This is an edited and slightly longer version of the article published a day earlier in the magazine Variedades (Lima, June 30, 1928) entitled “José Sabogal emprenderá viaje a Argentina,” signed with the pseudonum EGO. [See another article about this trip in the ICAA digital archive: by Manuel A. Seoane “José Sabogal, en Buenos Aires” (doc. no. 1140227)].
Sabogal returned to Cuzco from time to time in search of inspiration. In 1925 he spent several months there, making sketches for a set of works that he did not exhibit in public until 1928, when he showed thirteen woodcut prints in Montevideo, and seventy-six works (oil paintings and prints) in Buenos Aires. People in Lima waited anxiously to hear how these exhibitions had been received in the two Río de la Plata cities, both very prestigious cultural centers in Latin America, and Peruvian newspapers reprinted articles that appeared in the Buenos Aires press. That interest is expressed in this article and other earlier reviews that helped to establish Sabogal’s reputation as a painter of Peru’s natural landscape.