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Cuban Art Roberto EstopiñánRoberto Estopiñán
Period: Modern
1921 - 2015

Naked
Desnudo, 1990
bronze sculpture, unique piece
31 x 9 x 7 inches

Roberto Estopiñán, a sculptor, draftsman, and printmaker, was born in Havana, Cuba on March 18, 1921. Estopiñán enrolled at the San Alejandro Academy when he was just 14 years old and became the protegé and studio assistant of the sculptor Juan José Sicre. Throughout the 1950s, Estopiñán received important prizes at various national exhibitions in Havana. In 1953 he was the only semi-finalist from Latin America at the Tate Gallery's international sculpture competition for a Monument to the Unknown Political Prisoner. In 1961, the artist moved to New York, where he resided until 2002.


Since the 1980s, he has been involved with the female torso as his favorite expressive form. As a printmaker and draftsman, his production was thematically parallel to his sculptures. The most complete collection of his prints (1959-96) is found in the Jersey City Museum in New Jersey, where an exhibition was hosted in the spring of 1996. Together with Juan José Sicre, Alfredo Lozano and Agustín Cárdenas, Estopiñán is considered one of the pioneers of modern sculpture in Cuba and Latin America. The artist recently retired to Miami, FL.

“His work in the early 1950s was an evocation of Maillol and his resonant masses. During the same decade, Estopiñán produced totems and angular figures that reverberated with influences from Africa and Oceania…
Estopiñán has always been on a quest for a pure, essential form that he can load with content. He best demonstrates this quest with the obsessive use he has made of the female torso as his subject since 1978. This is an iconic subject found behind many manifestations of Western art, and of other arts as well. There are hundreds of variations on this theme in the hands of Estopiñán alone, but no two of them are alike. He revises, adds, subtracts, and transforms this essential female form in countless ways.”

Bibliography

Xenia Bas de Tamayo: Roberto Estopiñán: El escultor que insiste en buscar la forma más pura. Replica, Miami, FL 1992-1993. in Veigas, J., et al, eds. Memoria, Cuban Art of the Twentieth Century. 1st ed. Los Angeles, CA: California International Arts Foundation, 2002.

Anreus, Alejandro Ph.D., Associate Professor of Art History, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ. Retreived from http://www.askart.com, Sept 2006

 
 

Cuban Art Roberto Estopiñán 05611 A Man and a Woman
(Un Hombre y Una Mujer)

Roberto Estopiñán
1987
graphite on paper
44 x 30 inches
05611

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Cuban Art Roberto Estopiñán 05617 Abstract Figure
(Figura Abstracta)

Roberto Estopiñán
1969
engraving in metal
17 1/2 x 12 inches
05617

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Cuban Art Roberto Estopiñán 03577 Always Eternal
(Siempre Eterna)

Roberto Estopiñán
1992
bronze sculpture, unique piece
31 x 9 x 9 inches
03577

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Cuban Art Roberto Estopiñán 05615 Commitment
(Compromiso)

Roberto Estopiñán
1991
mixed media on paper
40 x 26 inches
05615

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Cuban Art Roberto Estopiñán C3851 Couple
(Pareja)

Roberto Estopiñán
1968
mixed media on paper
40 x 26 1/2 inches
C3851

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Cuban Art Roberto Estopiñán 06100 Double Standing Torsos
(Doble Torsos de Pie)

Roberto Estopiñán
Feb. 1981
bronze sculpture, one-of-a-kind
21 x 9 x 5 1/2 inches
06100

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Cuban Art Roberto Estopiñán RC0078
Face and Leaves
(Rostro y Hojas)

Roberto Estopiñán
1971
watercolor and ink on paper
20 x 26 inches
RC0078
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Cuban Art Roberto Estopiñán 07146 Female Nude Body
(Desnudo de Mujer)

Roberto Estopiñán
1988
sculpture
8 x 2 3/4 x 2 3/4 inches
07146

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Cuban Art Roberto Estopiñán 05610 Female Nude
(Desnudo de Mujer)

Roberto Estopiñán
1987
graphite on paper
44 x 30 1/4 inches
05610

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Cuban Art Roberto Estopiñán 07158 Female Torso
(Torso Femenino

Roberto Estopiñán
1988
bronze sculpture, one of a kind
8 3/4 x 4 x 4 inches
07158

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Cuban Art Roberto Estopiñán C1236 Figure of a Woman
(Figura de Mujer)

Roberto Estopiñán
1977
mixed media on paper
16 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches
C1236

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Cuban Art Roberto Estopiñán 07145 Forms
(Formas)

Roberto Estopiñán
1989
drawing on paper
44 x 30 inches
07145

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Cuban Art Roberto Estopiñán 05100 From the series “Prisoners”
(De la serie “Prisioneros”)

Roberto Estopiñán
ca 1961-62
wooden sculpture
18 x 13 inches
05100

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Cuban Art Roberto Estopiñán 05608 Hamlet
Roberto Estopiñán
1988
graphite on paper
44 x 30 1/4 inches
05608

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Cuban Art Roberto Estopiñán 05616 Hamlet II
Roberto Estopiñán
1988
mixed media on paper
40 x 25 3/4 inches
05616

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Cuban Art Roberto Estopiñán 07154 Head and Shoulders II
(Cabeza y Hombros II)

Roberto Estopiñán
1985
mixed media on heavy paper
30 x 22 1/2 inches
07154

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Cuban Art Roberto Estopiñán 07157 Head and Shoulders
(Cabeza y Hombros)

Roberto Estopiñán
1985
mixed media on heavy paper
30 x 22 1/2 inches
07157

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Cuban Art Roberto Estopiñán RC0074 Head Covered with Leaf
(Cabeza Cubierta con Hoja)

Roberto Estopiñán
1971
bronze sculpture
7 x 6 x 5 inches
RC0074

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Cuban Art Roberto Estopiñán RC0076 Head
(Cabeza)

Roberto Estopiñán
ca 1980
one-of-a-kind alabaster sculpture
15 x 8 1/4 x 13 inches
RC0076

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Cuban Art Roberto Estopiñán RC0075 Head
(Cabeza)

Roberto Estopiñán
ca 1980
sculpture
7 x 6 1/2 x 8 inches
RC0075

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Cuban Art Roberto Estopiñán 03557 Nude
(Desnudo)

Roberto Estopiñán
1990
bronze sculpture, unique piece
31 x 8 x 7 inches
03557

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Cuban Art Roberto Estopiñán 07156 Nude
(Desnudo)

Roberto Estopiñán
ca 1980
ink on heavy paper
40 x 26 inches
07156

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Cuban Art Roberto Estopiñán 05612 Perfect Union
(Unión Perfecta)

Roberto Estopiñán
ca 1990
mixed media on paper
40 x 27 inches
05612

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Cuban Art Roberto Estopiñán 07135 Prisoner
(Prisionero)

Roberto Estopiñán
1967
mixed media on paper
22 x 15 inches
07135

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Cuban Art Roberto Estopiñán 07159 Prisoners
(Prisioneros)

Roberto Estopiñán
1967
mixed media on paper
21 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches
07159

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Cuban Art Roberto Estopiñán C5809 Prisoners
(Prisioneros)

Roberto Estopiñán
ca 1964
mahogany wood
35 x 19 1/2 x 25 inches
C5809

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Cuban Art Roberto Estopiñán 05609 Seated Figure
(Figura Sentada)

Roberto Estopiñán
1988
graphite on paper
44 x 30 1/4 inches
05609

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Cuban Art Roberto Estopiñán 07139
The Birds
(Los Pajaros)

Roberto Estopiñán
1975
mixed media on paper
22 x 34 inches
07139
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Cuban Art Roberto Estopiñán 07155 The Prisoner
(El Prisionero)

Roberto Estopiñán
1967
mixed media on paper laid down on board
23 3/4 x 17 3/4 inches
07155

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Cuban Art Roberto Estopiñán 05613 The Witness
(El Testigo)

Roberto Estopiñán
1969
mixed media on paper
35 x 23 inches
05613

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Cuban Art Roberto Estopiñán 07153 Torso in White
(Torso en Blanco)

Roberto Estopiñán
1985
mixed media on heavy paper
30 x 22 1/4 inches
07153

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Cuban Art Roberto Estopiñán 07131
Two Fates
(Dos Destinos)

Roberto Estopiñán
1967
mixed media on paper
17 1/2 x 22 3/4 inches
07131
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Cuban Art Roberto Estopiñán RC0077 Two Women
(Dos Mujeres)

Roberto Estopiñán
ca 1978
mixed media on paper
37 1/2 x 21 3/4 inches
RC0077

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Cuban Art Roberto Estopiñán 07160 Untitled [from the series “Female Torsos”]
(Sin Título [de la serie “Torsos Femeninos”])

Roberto Estopiñán
1980
mixed media on heavy paper
14 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches
07160

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Cuban Art Roberto Estopiñán 07161 Untitled [from the series “Prisoners”]
(Sin Título [de la serie “Prisioneros”])

Roberto Estopiñán
1967
mixed media on paper
22 x 17 1/2 inches
07161

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Cuban Art Roberto Estopiñán 07152 Untitled [from the series “Prisoners”]
(Sin Título [de la serie “Prisioneros”])

Roberto Estopiñán
1967
mixed media on paper
17 x 11 inches
07152

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Cuban Art Roberto Estopiñán 07151
Untitled [from the series “Prisoners”]
(Sin Título [de la serie “Prisioneros”])

Roberto Estopiñán
1967
mixed media on heavy paper
16 3/4 x 22 inches
07151
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Cuban Art Roberto Estopiñán 05614 Woman with Afro
(Mujer con Melena)

Roberto Estopiñán
1982
mixed media on paper
39 1/4 x 27 3/4 inches
05614

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Cuban Art Roberto Estopiñán 01788 Woman's Torso
(Torso de Mujer)

Roberto Estopiñán
ca 1990
mixed media on paper
44 x 30 1/4 inches
01788

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