1982 Saturnino Ramírez Hand Signed Numbered 106/150 - Untitled/ Billiard Pool Hall - Lithograph Art Print. Frame measures 29 by 23 inches. Lithographic print is framed in great condition with vivid detail and color as displayed in the photo gallery. A extremely scarce piece. Shipped with FEDEX Ground, and USPS International Shipping. Saturnino Ramírez, 1982 Saturnino Ramírez Born into a family of farmers in Socorro, Santander, Saturnino Ramírez (1946-2002) was the youngest of eight siblings. He studied Fine Arts at the National University of Colombia and upon graduation he was appointed professor at the Medellín section for the Expresiones chair of the Architecture program. It was the time of Coltejer's first Art Biennials (68, 70, 72) and also a time when Lovaina Street, located in the Antioquia neighborhood and declared the city's only tolerance zone since 1951, served as the setting for the painting by Ramírez. In 1972 he participated in the III Biennial with a series of drawings called "Prostitutes", a work thanks to which he began to receive critical acclaim. In 1973 he won a one-year scholarship to study abroad. He traveled to Paris and was part of the group of most prominent Colombian artists of the moment: Darío Morales, Luis Caballero, Jairo Tellez and Gregorio Cuartas. He stayed in this city for almost two decades and when he returned to the country in the early 1990s, he settled in the center of Bogota. His work as a whole appears to be influenced by postwar figurative expressionism. This engraving of a billiard player is part of a series in which the artist, as usual in his work, presents with vivid realism the lonely characters of nightlife and their tireless search for the creation of an introspective language. There is here a very strong juncture between the pictorial part and good drawing. Ramírez's fame as a painter of profane life led him to be called to participate in an editorial project of the Taller Arte Dos Grafico, as illustrator of the story In this town there are no thieves by Gabriel García Marquez, which was about the theft of billiard balls. The artist returned to Socorro, where he lived his last years on a farm that he named ?Volver?, after the name of tango.