Oscar Conti

His work was in growing demand during subsequent years, and his elongated human characters and featherless birds fixtures in a number of popular mainstream magazines and in Clarín, the most-widely circulated news daily in Argentina and Latin America.

His work brought him to the attention of French writer Jean-Paul Sartre, who had Oski create the backdrop for the Buenos Aires performance of his play, The Polite Prostitute in 1947.

Made in an era in which such historical events were treated as sacrosanct epics by the State and much of the media, First Foundation was a slapstick look at the imposing Spanish Conquistadores and their conflict with retaliating indigenous peoples.

The worsening climate of political violence and repression in Argentina during 1975 led Oski to move to Barcelona, Spain late that year, where he briefly worked for Lumen Publishing.

Relocating to Rome in 1976, he illustrated a number of left-leaning periodicals such as Italy's L'Unità, though his declining health and a certain loosening of restrictions by Argentina's dictatorship in 1979 led him to return.