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| | artnet.com Magazine Features - Real Life |
 | | The exhibition opened with two works by Francisco Oller Y Cestero of Puerto Rico, Plantains and Bananas and Still Life with Coconuts (both from around 1893). |
 | | In these two large oils the artist excludes all else from view but the fruit, which he renders in loving detail, celebrating the luscious flora, and by extension, the land that produced it. |
 | | Francisco Matto of Uruguay, one of a number of artists who absorbed the grid-based Constructivism of Joaquín Torres-García at his influential workshop in Montevideo, shows an oil-on-wood relief, Removedor (1959), which depicts fruit in a bowl. |
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