"Decorative panel, silicate on wall (4 mts diameter), Teatro del Pueblo, Buenos Aires, 1941". Reproduced with the preceeding epigraph in Ars magazine, 1941. At the moment destroyed

Berni obtained the Acquisition Award Martín Rodríguez Galisteo at the XVIII Salón de Santa Fe with Figura, a female portrait prized the previous year at the Salón Nacional.

He painted a mural for the Teatro del Pueblo –disappeared in 1943–, in addition to Paule y Lily and Sol de domingo, which were exposed at the XXXI Salón Nacional. He performed a portrait of Blas Parera for the Library of the Sociedad Argentina de Compositores. At the VIII Salón de Otoño, performed in Amigos del Arte, he presented Medianoche en el mundo, which, together with the works of Raquel Forner (El manto rojo and La caída) gained most of the critics comments. The Museo de Bellas Artes of San Juan acquired Figura de niña.

Berni dictated two lectures, “Introducción a la pintura” and “La pintura moderna”, at the Art Exhibition of the Banco Municipal de Buenos Aires.

Mendoza’s daily Los Andes published his article “El realismo en el arte de Gómez Cornet”. In Buenos Aires’ magazine Argentina