a day like today but three days ago, comes an email from compañerazo Héctor Ángel Benedetti, besides being the author of this and this blog, collector and writer tango is on Wikipedia! . share with readers the mail received a few days ago because they wanted the general
I stand for these days touring the mountains of Curá Malal, southwest of the province, where a hundred years ago to take their holidays the first President Kirchner (Figueroa Alcorta: very lightly some historians pigeonholed as a president "Regime", but the truth is that he turned and ended up being progressive rock and proto-Peronist).
Grande was my surprise when I came stroll through the cemetery Pigüé, and the vaults of many French families that are there I found a monument made by Numa Ayrinhac (1881-1951), painter of official portraits of Perón and Evita in the late '40s.
Ayrinhac, Aveyron immigrant like many of the first settlers of Pigüé after De la Cárcova disciple, was the favorite painter of Evita and was the one who made the box and Evita Peron is in the Casa Rosada, as well as the Evita who illustrated the cover of The meaning of my life (whose original is not preserved because it was destroyed by the Liberator), the Ibarguren Juana his mother and his brother Juan Duarte. Shipping
a photo I took of the sculpture I saw in the cemetery, and others that serve to illustrate that story up.
Best Regards.
Héctor Ángel Benedetti. "
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