Clarita de Uriburu

Clarita de Uriburu

Clara "Clarita" Agustina de Uriburu Roca (1 April 1908 - 22 April 1995) was an Argentinian socialite included in The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton.[1]

Biography

Clara "Clarita" Agustina de Uriburu Roca was born on 1 April 1908 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the daughter of José Evaristo Uriburu Tezanos Pinto (1880-1956), Argentinian Ambassador in London from 1927 to 1931,[2] and Agustina Eloísa Roca Funes.[3] Her grandfather was José Evaristo Uriburu, President of Argentina from 23 January 1895 to 12 October 1898.

She was one of the models of Cecil Beaton, who, in The Book of Beauty, said: "Miss Clarita de Uriburu is a marionette edition of these two tall sisters (Paula Gellibrand and her sister Nada Ruffer, n.d.r.), an exquisite puppet, five feet in height, delicately proportioned, and the texture of her complexion and hair is of a fineness that is unique. Her egg-shaped face looks to be made of polished marble, her corn-coloured hair is spun of the flimsiest silk, her cheeks are of a pink sweet-pea pinkness, her eyes, feathered with gigantic lashes, are enormous and of a firework brilliance, her nose is sharp and perky, her mouth a doll’s mouth above a chin that is witty in its oval sparseness, and on her lips rouge possesses an added brilliance. Her hatpin-thin neck does not look as though it could balance the large crown of the head it carries, let alone the madly smart little hat of which there is surely not to be another to be seen in London. Miss Uriburu possesses the childish qualities of the debutante that she is, but dresses with the sophistication and slightly comic chic that only few middle-aged women acquire. She is one of our most important Venuses, for she is absolutely new, witty, pretty, and the result is ridiculously attractive."[1]

On 15 December 1938 she married Eduardo Cernadas Martel and had one son, Eduardo Cernadas Uriburu.

She died on 22 April 1995 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and is buried at Cementerio de la Recoleta.

References

  1. 1 2 Beaton, Cecil (1933). The Book Of Beauty. Retrieved 19 January 2018. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. ↑ "José Evaristo Uriburu". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  3. ↑ Beaton, Cecil (2007). The Unexpurgated Beaton: The Cecil Beaton Diaries as He Wrote Them, 1970-1980. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. p. 440. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
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