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PARTIAL SELECTIONS OF RECENT ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES - NOVEMBER 2011
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Retrato de Flora no. 18
(Portrait of Flora no. 18)
René Portocarrero
1966
oil on canvas
30 x 23 3/4 inches
AVAILABLE
This painting was exhibited at the XXXIII Exposicione Biennale Internazionale D’Arte di Venezia, 1966. Exhibition label of the Venezia Biennale included on the back of the painting
Also signed, dated and numbered 18 by the artist on the back.
This painting is illustrated in the book, Memoria: Cuban Art of the Twentieth Century, 2002,
California/International Arts Foundation, page 288.
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Caballos Salvajes
(Wild Horses)
Carlos Enríquez
1953
oil on canvas
22 x 26 inches
SOLD
This painting was exhibited at Art Basel Miami Beach 2010, Miami Beach, FL.
This painting is illustrated in the book, Cuban Art, Remembering Cuba Through its Art, 2004, Arte al Día Internacional, page 131.
Also, illustrated in Juan Martínez, Carlos Enríquez: The Painter of Cuban Ballads, 2010, page 233.
“Carlos Enríquez’s enthusiasm for horses goes back to his childhood as documented in family photographs and by his own accounts. As in the case of other artists strongly inspired by the figure of the horse, such as Theodore Gericault and Franz Marc with whom Enríquez had a keen affinity, his knowledge of the animal was first-hand and his love ran deep. The figure of the horse, roaming a friendly but desolate Cuban landscape, is the leading character of the artist’s “romantic materialism” or 1950s production...” - Juan Martínez
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La Visita
(The Visit)
Tomás Sánchez
1973
oil on canvas
27 x 35 1/2 inches
SOLD
EXHIBITIONS:
This painting was exhibited in Tomás Sánchez at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana, Cuba, January 1985, and is listed in the exhibition catalog.
ILLUSTRATIONS:
This painting is illustrated in the book Tomás Sánchez, Paintings, Palette Publications, 1996.
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Veleros en el Mar
(Sailboats at Sea)
Augusto Chartrand Dubois
1888
oil on canvas
9 x 12 inches
AVAILABLE
$30,000.00
Signed “A Chartrand ” lower left
This painting was part of the Collection of the Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont and was deaccessioned by this institution.
Augusto Chartrand Dubois (1828-1899) was born in Charleston, North Carolina, on January 23, 1828. Augusto, Philippe, and Esteban form the trio of Chartrand brothers that developed the art of landscape painting in the Island and focused on the theme of the Cuban countryside.
Augusto studied in France from age nine to nineteen. He traveled through various countries in Europe, Canada, Chile, India, and frequented different regions of the United States. He was known to be an eccentric, a musician, an explorer, an adventurer, and a womanizer. His dedication to painting was occasional since diverse occupations such as the administration of the family sugar plantation and other business dealings detracted him from painting. Until recently, the artist had been forgotten by art critics, but the fortuitous appearance of two small canvases depicting scenes from the Canímar River in Matanzas, served to initiate the “rediscovery” of this fine landscape artist of scarce yet solid melancholic production, of exquisite filtered lights and Romantic palette. Like his brothers, Augusto preferred rendering rural scenes of his beloved Matanzas. At the Goupil Gallery in New York – which represented him from 1879 until his death – he exhibited at least seven documented works, two of these were scenes from the Yumurí Valley and others were seascapes of Matanzas. He lived convinced of the pictorial talents of his brothers and of his own. In a parting letter to Rosa Chartrand, his niece, shortly before his death, Augusto tells her that Esteban and he “would be acknowledged in the history of the world”. He died days later, on August 25, 1899 in Matanzas, Cuba.
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Afro-Cuban Dance
(Bembé)
René Portocarrero
1947
pastel on heavy paper laid down on board
24 1/4 x 17 inches
AVAILABLE
“In 1947, Portocarrero begins to work on a group of pastels that occupy him all of that year and are prolonged sporadically until 1949… in this collection of pastels it is possible to find still lifes with flowers, images from Catholic iconography, interiors with elaborate screen panels, groups of dancers, harlequins, and also the exceptional version of a native satyr.
The scene of dancing figures in interiors becomes the most interesting of the series, as they touch upon the realm of the popular world. They generally represent bembés [dances] of santería, ritual feasts of syncretic character, where African roots have mixed with Catholicism, in which the dance is the fundamental element.”
Graziella Pogolotti, Ramón Vázquez Díaz, René Portocarrero, Editorial Henschel, Berlin 1987, section no. 11.
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Tarde en el Jardín
(Afternoon in the Garden)
Mario Carreño
1983
oil on canvas
33 1/2 x 47 1/2 inches
SOLD
EXHIBITIONS:
This painting was exhibited in Mario Carreño, Retrospective Exhibition 1945 – 1991, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile. The exhibition sticker is found on the back of the painting. |
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Cafetera
(Coffee Pot)
Angel Acosta León
ca. 1963
oil on paper
22 3/4 x 15 inches
SOLD
This painting was exhibited in Angel Acosta León, Galerie D’EENDT, Amsterdan, April-May 1964, and listed as no. 7 in the exhibition publication.
This painting was exhibited in Pintores Cubanos en París, Cuban Museum of Art and Culture, Miami, Florida, February-May 1985. |
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Your Love Within Me Everywhere
(Tu Amor en Mí, Dondequiera)
Miguel Florido
2011
acrylic on canvas
71 x 51 1/4 inches
AVAILABLE
$20,000.00
Miguel Florido was born in San José de las Lajas, Havana, Cuba in 1980. His works are part of important private and public collections in Spain, France, United States, Mexico, Venezuela, Panamá, Puerto Rico, Grand Cayman and Cuba. He has garnered significant awards at international and national events and competitions. Florido has presented several personal exhibitions in Venezuela, Panamá, Cuba and the United States. His works have been included in various major art fairs throughout the United States and Puerto Rico, on more than twenty events during the past six years, such as Art Miami (on six occasions); Palm Beach 3 (on three occasions), Arteaméricas, (on five occasions); Circa Puerto Rico (twice); Art of the Main New York, (twice), The Hampton’s Art Fair (twice) and once each at Art Santa Fe, the Los Angeles Art Show and Art Chicago.
Miguel Florido’s artworks have twice been featured and sold at Christie’s Latin American Art Auction, New York. His record at auction is $20,400.00 on June 1, 2007 for the painting Amor Mío, an oil on canvas of 78 inches x 40 inches.
The artist presently resides in Cuba and is represented worldwide by Cernuda Arte.
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La Migración de los Textos
(The Migration of Texts)
Joel Besmar
2011
oil on canvas
39 1/2 x 59 inches
AVAILABLE
$10,000.00
“The Migration of Texts is a metaphor for intertextuality, a form of literary analysis which studies the links that exist between different writings. The three books depicted represent three connected literary treasures: Homer’s The Odyssey (ca. 8th century BC), Virgil’s The Aeneid (ca. 29 to 19 BC), and James Joyce’s Ulysses (ca. 1922). There is an interwoven exchange of memorable references and parallels in each written work. The books are physically connected with a rope that directly references a jigsaw puzzle game evidencing the difficulty of untying the knot among the three elements. The rope serves as the channel through which the three texts nourish each other, and in the same way, acts as the bridge that joins them. Consequently, the proliferation of bridges in the landscape reiterates this stream of ideas, as they exemplify the elements that connect the various land masses, enabling the flux, the migrations of writings and of mankind.”
Joel Besmar |
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Romance of the Bridges
(Romance de los Puentes)
Vicente Hernández
2011
mixed media on canvas
39 1/2 x 78 3/4 inches
AVAILABLE
$12,000.00
Vicente Hernández was born in Batabanó, Havana, Cuba, on November 9th, 1971. He graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte of Havana with a degree in Art Education. He was a professor at the University’s department of Fine Arts for a period of two years.
Hernández has had one person exhibitions in Cuba, The Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Panama, Venezuela, Spain, and the United States. He has garnered several awards and recognitions and his artworks have been reproduced in multiple books, magazines, and art publications. His artworks have been included in international art auctions at Christie’s and Sotheby’s in New York.
In Cuba, his works have been chosen for the poster for the 29th Latin American Cinema Festival, held in Havana, in December of 2007 and he has been featured in two of the most prestigious art and culture publications of the country, the cover and an extensive essay in Opus Havana, vol 10, no 1, 2007 and at the cover and an extensive essay in the Gaceta de Cuba, no 5, 2005. The artist has illustrated over ten books, published in the Island.
Vicente Hernández, while living in Cuba, where he resides with his family, has exhibited extensively in the United States. Since 2001, he has participated in over thirty five group exhibitions and major art fairs in this country. He has had two one person exhibitions in the United States, The Marvelous World of Bujamey, in 2002, and From a Strange Town, in 2009, both held at Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, Florida. The artist is represented worldwide by Cernuda Arte.
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El Mundo de Laura
(Laura's World)
Sandro De La Rosa
2011
oil on canvas
59 x 59 inches
RESERVED
Born in Havana, Cuba, in 1972. In 1992, he graduated from the renowned San Alejandro Academy of Art in Havana. His work has been exhibited at the San Alejandro Academy of Art in Havana, as well as, at the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, and at El Museo del Ron in Havana, among others. He has taken part in the Slovakia, Japan, and Spain biennials. He has had three personal exhibitions and has participated in over thirty group shows.
The artist has participated in fine art fairs in the U.S. including Art Miami, Arteaméricas, Palmbeach3, Art20 & Modernism N.Y., Art D.C., CIRCA Puerto Rico, Art Chicago, Art Hamptons N.Y., and the Los Angeles Art Show. His works form part of important private collections in the United States, France, Spain, Italy, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Jamaica.
Sandro de la Rosa is represented exclusively by Cernuda Arte
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Eden Before the Apple,
(El Edén Antes de la Manzana)
Ramón Vázquez
2011
oil on canvas
43 1/2 x 56 3/4 inches
SOLD
Ramón Vázquez León was born in Viñales, Pinar del Río, Cuba, in February, 1972. His studies in the visual arts began at the Raúl Sánchez Vocational School of Art in Pinar del Río. In 1987, he entered the National School of Fine Arts in Havana. He graduated in 1991 as a draftsman, painter and professor of Painting and Drawing. Throughout his career Vázquez has had over ten one person exhibitions and over thirty group shows worldwide.
His works have been presented at various major art fairs in the U.S.A, such as ArteAméricas, PalmBeach 3, Art20 & Modernism, Art D.C, Circa Puerto Rico, Art Miami, Los Angeles Art Show, Art Hamptons N.Y, Art Santa Fe, Art Chicago and others.
He has garnered various awards in the landscape genre. Including the October 20th Provincial Salon Landscape Award in Viñales, Pinar del Río, Cuba in 2003, the National Landscape Award, First National Landscape Salon Víctor Manuel in Havana, Cuba that same year and the Landscape Award, Tiburcio Lorenzo National Salon in Cuba in 2001.
The artist is represented by Cernuda Arte.
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