Original Painting "Oranges For Sale" by Alonso Flores, El Salvador, 19.7"x15.7"

About "Oranges For sale " by Alonso Flores

Oranges for Sale by Alonso Flores (2025) depicts a lively village scene filled with everyday activity. At the heart of the painting, a woman stands outside her home with a table full of bright oranges for sale, inviting passersby in the small dirt road village to stop and buy. Around her, villagers are busy with their daily routines, children play, a woman carries a basket on her head, and laundry hangs out to dry between homes. Colorful houses with red tiled roofs nestle among blooming trees and thick greenery, creating a warm and welcoming atmosphere. The painting beautifully captures a moment of simple life centered around community and small trade.

About Alonso Flores

Alonso Flores was born in 1957 in Santa Ana, El Salvador. At age 10, he moved to La Palma, Chalatenango, where he fell in love with the locales natural beauty and breathtaking views and was drawn to the simple, everyday life of the common folk. While in La Palma, Alonso studied artisan crafts, including the rudiments of painting, and used the canvases, brushes and few tubes of acrylics supplied by the workshop to explore the world of art, at first through trial and error, and later with greater proficiency. In 1983, Flores began to paint in earnest, placing special emphasis upon El Salvadors enchanting vegetation, wide open fields, distant blue hills, picturesque villages and local farmers.

Later in his art career, Flores was befriended by Fausto Perez, the leading naive artist of El Salvador, whose kind advice assisted him in improving his choice of colors and stylistic techniques. In parallel to his life as an artist, Flores worked for many years as a government employee and, more recently, as a leather craftsman. He advises that, every night, he goes to sleep thinking and dreaming of new themes based on childhood memories.