Paule and Berni in their house at Rivadavia street, facing Parque Lezica

The studio of architects Aslán & Escurra requested the Taller de Arte Mural to decorate the dome of Galerías Pacífico.

Editorial Losada published the book Antonio Berni by Roger Plá.

Berni painted Domingo en la chacra or El almuerzo, a work based on the traditional composition of the “Last Supper”, which would be repainted in 1971.

He took part in the Salón Independiente, organized to repudiate the Salón Nacional because of its conservative nature and its exclusion of modern tendencies and, as the catalog stated, “adhering to democratic longings declared by the intellectuals of the whole country”. The reference to a feeling of threatening over political and creative liberties aroused in this sector by Peron’s ascent to the presidency of the country became evident.

This “counter salon” developed in a basement placed at 458 Florida Street, where works formerly intended for the Salón Nacional were sent. In addition to Berni, there participated Badi,