Berni performed his successful first exhibitions while he still was a teenager. Landscapes, portraits and still lifes have been kept from that time, revealing a consummate skill in drawing. The harmonious sense of color, its richness, mainly present in views of the plains in Santa Fe and the sierras in Córdoba, are visibly influenced by the “clear painting” originated in impressionism, which by that time had in Fernando Fader a widely famous worshiper in Argentina. After his arrival from Paris, the mecca of modern art, young Berni transformed his approach of painting. He introduced in his works expressionist notes deriving from his apprenticeship with Othon Friesz, as well as the structuring and geometrizing of forms typical of the moderate, didactic cubism he put in practice in André Lothe’s atelier.