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CLAUDIA VARGAS

Cien Años de Soledad


...she was the most beautiful woman ever born, and she had been lost forever because of the incurable vice of solitude that distinguished the family.     – One Hundred Years of Solitude

Over four years, I painted Márquez's beautiful characters as my own family in Colombia, one I could neither forgive nor stop loving.

Fernandita | Cien Años de Soledad | 1997 | Oil On Linen | 61 x 50cm / 24 x 20in Coronel Aureliano | Cien Años de Soledad | 1996 | Oil On Linen | 92 x 73cm / 36 x 29in Ursula II | Cien Años de Soledad | 1998 | Oil On Linen | 116 x 81cm / 46 x 32in Amaranta | Cien Años de Soledad | 1994 | Oil On Linen | 54 x 65cm / 21 x 26in Jose Arcadio | Cien Años de Soledad | 1996 | Oil On Linen | 92 x 73cm / 36 x 29in Remedios La Bella | Cien Años de Soledad | 1998 | Oil On Linen | 65 x 46cm / 26 x 18in Reina | Cien Años de Soledad | 1996 | Oil On Linen | 100 x 50cm / 39 x 20in Ursula IV | Cien Años de Soledad | 1998 | Oil On Linen | 116 x 81cm / 46 x 32in Cien Años De Soledad | Cien Años de Soledad | 1996 | Oil On Linen | 162 x 130cm / 64 x 51in Melquiades | Cien Años de Soledad | 1996 | Oil On Linen | 65 x 50cm / 26 x 20in Pilar Ternera I | Cien Años de Soledad | 1994 | Oil On Linen | 65 x 50cm / 26 x 20in Petra Cotes | Cien Años de Soledad | 1998 | Oil On Linen | 74 x 99cm / 29 x 39in Parranda | Cien Años de Soledad | 1998 | Oil On Linen | 100 x 50cm / 39 x 20in Pope | Cien Años de Soledad | 1998 | Oil On Linen | 150 x 89cm / 59 x 35in Fernanda | Cien Años de Soledad | 1998 | Oil On Linen | 130 x 81cm / 51 x 32in El Loco | Cien Años de Soledad | 1998 | Oil On Linen | 146 x 114cm / 57 x 45in Amor O Arana | Cien Años de Soledad | 1998 | Oil On Linen | 146 x 114cm / 57 x 45in Rebeca | Cien Años de Soledad | 1996 | Oil On Linen | 65 x 46cm / 26 x 18in Ursula I | Cien Años de Soledad | 1997 | Oil On Linen | 64 x 107cm / 25 x 42in Ursula Amaranta | Cien Años de Soledad | 1996 | Oil On Linen | 50 x 50cm / 20 x 20in

Paintings


Vet | 2009 | Acrylic & Graphite On Linen | 102 x 61cm / 40 x 24in Wrong Place Wrong Time | 2007 | Acrylic On Paper | 140 x 86cm / 55 x 34in Street Man III | 2002 | Mixed Media On Paper | 50 x 100cm / 20 x 39in Boy | 2001 | Mixed Media On Paper | 145 x 115cm / 57 x 45in Urban Sun | 2000 | Mixed Media On Paper | 75 x 100cm / 30 x 39in Rope Jump IV | 2000 | Acrylic On Paper | 75 x 100cm / 30 x 39in Wall Street | 2000 | Mixed Media On Paper | 100 x 76cm / 39 x 30in It | 2000 | Mixed Media On Paper | 107 x 152cm / 42 x 60in Street Man II | 2000 | Acrylic On Paper | 150 x 100cm / 59 x 39in Fish Or Motorcycle | 2000 | Acrylic On Paper | 142 x 114cm / 56 x 45in Children Eating Gold II | 2000 | Acrylic On Paper | 165 x 120cm / 65 x 47in Children Eating Gold | 2000 | Acrylic On Paper | 162 x 130cm / 64 x 51in Rope Jump V | 2000 | Acrylic On Paper | 75 x 100cm / 30 x 39in Urban | 1994 | Oil On Linen | 50 x 100cm / 20 x 39in Freeway II | 1994 | Oil On Linen | 121 x 78cm / 48 x 31in Party | 1994 | Oil On Linen | 130 x 100cm / 51 x 39in Singer | 1993 | Oil On Linen | 50 x 50cm / 20 x 20in Rope Jump I | 1993 | Oil On Linen | 101 x 63cm / 40 x 25in Nightmare | 1993 | Oil On Linen | 61 x 46cm / 24 x 18in Freeway | 1993 | Oil On Linen | 121 x 78cm / 48 x 31in Purple Selfie | 1994 | Oil On Linen | 65 x 46cm / 26 x 18in Green Portrait | 1992 | Oil On Linen | 50 x 50cm / 20 x 20in Mine | 1992 | Oil On Linen | 51 x 89cm / 20 x 35in Voyage | 1992 | Oil On Linen | 46 x 61cm / 18 x 24in Hommage Aux Civils | 1991 | Oil On Linen | 116 x 81cm / 46 x 32in News From The Front | 1991 | Oil On Linen | 116 x 81cm / 46 x 32in

Drawings


Fernandita | 2017 | Mixed Media On Paper | 35 x 28cm / 14 x 11in Fernandita | 2017 | Mixed Media On Paper | 35 x 28cm / 14 x 11in Fernandita | 2017 | Mixed Media On Paper | 35 x 28cm / 14 x 11in Fernandita | 2017 | Mixed Media On Paper | 35 x 28cm / 14 x 11in Child | 2017 | Mixed Media On Paper | 43 x 33cm / 17 x 13in Child | 2017 | Mixed Media On Paper | 45 x 35cm / 18 x 14in Child | 2017 | Mixed Media On Paper | 43 x 33cm / 17 x 13in Child | 2017 | Mixed Media On Paper | 38 x 33cm / 15 x 13in Swings | Air | 2014 | Charcoal & Beeswax On Paper | 107 x 530cm / 42 x 209in Rope Jump | Air | 2013 | Charcoal & Beeswax On Paper | 150 x 107cm / 59 x 42in Pearl Necklaces | 1998 | Mixed Media On Paper | 58 x 53cm / 23 x 21in Pearl Necklaces | 1998 | Mixed Media On Paper | 58 x 53cm / 23 x 21in Pearl Necklaces | 1998 | Mixed Media On Paper | 58 x 53cm / 23 x 21in Pearl Necklaces | 1998 | Mixed Media On Paper | 58 x 53cm / 23 x 21in Pearl Necklaces | 1998 | Mixed Media On Paper | 58 x 53cm / 23 x 21in Pearl Necklaces | 1998 | Mixed Media On Paper | 58 x 53cm / 23 x 21in Pearl Necklaces | 1998 | Mixed Media On Paper | 58 x 53cm / 23 x 21in