María Freire

The Uruguayan artist received several distinctions: Prize of Honor in the Biennial of San Pablo (1957); First Prize (Watercolor), in the National Hall (1961); Free Theme Prize (Drawing), in the National Salon (1964); Grand Prize for Painting in the National Hall (1968) and a Great Painting Prize in the VII Salto Spring Show (1978). In 1996 he was awarded the Figari Prize. Freire's work went through a stage of indeterminate sculptural exploration between the spatial and the three-dimensional, and then it consummated an abstract pictorial orthodoxy that made it the protagonist of the Hard Abstraction in Uruguay.Her works are in museums in Uruguay, Brazil and Spain, as well as in Uruguayan and foreign private collections.