It has been a great privelege and a real pleasure to be allowed
to see the magnificent collection of paintings by Figari. It is rare
to find an artist who absorbed so much of the best that was being
done in Europe and t the same time remained completely personal,
not only in the subject which he painted but in his individual
conception of colour and design. He contrived to make his paintings
perfectly spontaneous, even if they are evidently very carefully
thought out. The symmetry is clear, but never monotonous; the colour
carefully but not obviously disposed. He seems to be equally happy
if he is painting figures in violent movement, as in his dances, or
in profound repose, even contemplation; and he can render the
character of the great plains of Argentina, with the animals
which live in them, as perfectly as the domestic scenes which
he saw in Uruguay or which he remembered from his
childhood.
Anthony Blunt

                                             18.8.1970