ART | Artofcostarica

Javier Portuguez

Oil on canvas, from the decade of the 90's. Early work of this artist that masterly captures the essence of the Costa Rican people.

This painting depicts the labour of the sugar cane, the way it was transported in the early 1900's with colorful hand painted oxcarts, crossing the country to the factories where the sugar cane was converted into sugar.

Investment: $450

FOLKLORIC ART, PRIVATE COLLECTION

Javier Portuguez

Oil on canvas, 1985.

This time, the artist paints the way old neighborhoods look like at the end of the 1800's and early 1900's. A memoir of Costa Rican adobe haciendas with red tiled roofs, and the humble labored of the land passing by.

Investment: $450

Javier Portuguez

This artwork form 1998, oil on canvas, shows us the kind of ovens used in the rural Costa Rica. Again, the typical red tiles, and always surrounded by the lush nature.

Investment: $450

Oil on canvas. 1996.

This artist is one of the few women who have taken this path into folkloric art. You can see her subtle way of depicting Costa Rican houses, surrounded by the pastel colors of summer. The feminine way to see the same times in this country's history.

Investment: $400

Sonia Salazar

Watercolor, 1996.

This artist, since his early works, has been using watercolor as his primary media. He has an impecable way of using this technique which you can see in his mastery on shading and details. Always in love with this country, Wenceslao has a prolific career painting the old Costa Rica, its colors and people.

Investment: $350

Wenceslao

Watercolor, 1998

This painting shows us, the most iconic Costa Rican typical house. The red tiles over adobe walls, painted in white and blue, creating that way a patriotic display by using the same colors as the Costa Rican flag. You can see also, the typical oven to bake corn and breads, with the mountain in the back as the silent witness of the most pacific living

Investment: $350

Watercolor, 1997

This painting shows us Guanacaste, the way it was before the recent developing growth of the province. It has white roads, and in this case, we can see the cooper tones of the dry season. Little zinc roofed tiles and big land spaces mostly used for cattle.

Investment: $350

Watercolor, 1998

The media is used colorfully to show us the brightness of the old Costa Rican living. A couple talking in the side of a typical house, while the chicken are freely all around. The color of the trees makes us think of March, when the bougainvillea is blooming and the weather is warm.

Investment: $350

Watercolor, 1998

In this painting, the artist shows us how the rainy season looked like with the gray sky, the watery roads. People going to church, with the sounds of raindrops and crickets. Wenceslao its a romantic artist and his artwork proves it.

Investment: $350

Oil on canvas, 1986

This artist has a very realistic brush stroke and his artwork is recognized due his mastery and romantic realism. You can appreciate the details through out the paintings, in the wooden doors, the tiles, fences, and even in the subtlety of the skies.

Investment: $900

Watercolor, 1987

This painting shows the different tones of green found still in the rural areas of Costa Rica, with vast areas for crops and farming, the isolated houses in the plots. How skillfully shows the transition between the rainy and dry season.

Investment: $350

Sonia Salazar

Oil on canvas, 1996

This artist, depicts a traditional Costa Rican landscape, and we can see how she shows us her point of view by adding traditionally feminine activities.

Investment: $350

Watercolor, 1997

The artist gracefully composes a vivid illustration of the rainy months in Costa Rica: the cloudy sky, with its different shades of gray, people walking by under their umbrellas in the ballast road, the colorful mountains. All beautifully composed by this artist.

Investment: $350

Watercolor, 1998

The iconic typical house of Costa Rica, skillfully integrated in the central valley surroundings, its colors, the shadows cast before the sunset, combined all in this artwork.

Investment: $350

Oil on canvas, 1986

This well recognized artist, shows us in this painting how skillfully he plays with shadows and details to depict a harmonious Costa Rican typical scene.

Investment: $700

Watercolor

This painting is the highlight of our collection. Pacheco, who was a prolific artist, photographer. Always had a passion to preserver our folklore, landscape, with a fervent patriotism, capturing the every day life as the painteresque side of it. Since his retrospective art showing in 1973, we can see his rich layering in his artwork, impressionist because of the use of strokes, and light. Considered one of the masters in folkloric and naturalistic art.

Investment: $4000