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Mario Carreño (1913 - 1999)
Afro-Cuban Dance
(Danza Afrocubana), 1943
Duco with cloth and rope collage on wood panel
64 7/8 x 47 7/8 inches
Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS,
Volume Twenty-One,
front cover, page 58 and 59.
Provenance:
Perls Galleries, New York (1944);
Acquired from the above,
thence by descent from the above;
Private Collection, Coral Gables, FL;
Private Collection, Aventura, FL.
Exhibited in Carreño, Lyceum, Havana,
Cuba, Nov. 9-16, 1943, no. 8.
Exhibited in Mario Carreño, Perls Galleries,
New York, New York, Mar. – Apr. 1944, and
listed in the exhibition brochure, no. 14.
Exhibited in Modern Cuban Painters at the Museum
of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, April 1944, curated
by Alfred Barr, and listed in “Modern Cuban Painters”,
Museum of Modern Art Bulletin, Vol. XI, No. 5, p. 8,
Apr. 1944.
Exhibited in Sotheby’s, Latin American Art,
May 30-31, 2007, New York, NY, lot no. 8.
Exhibited in Afro-Cuban Dance - A Re-Discovered
Masterwork by Mario Carreño, Cernuda Arte,
Coral Gables, FL, July 2007, and illustrated
on the cover of the invitation.
Exhibited in Cuban Art & Identity: 1900-1950,
Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, Florida,
curated by Juan A. Martínez, PhD,
Oct.19, 2013 – Feb. 2, 2014, illustrated
in the museum catalog, page 23,
and listed on page 54, no. 9.
Also Exhibited at the Following Museums:
Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute, Utica, New York,
Oct. 1 – Oct. 30, 1944.
Art Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, Dec. 1 – Dec.29, 1944.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Feb. 1 – Mar. 1, 1945.
St. Paul Gallery & School of Art, St. Paul, Minnesota,
Mar. 15 – Apr. 1, 1945.
University Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,
Minnesota,
May 27 – Jun. 24, 1945.
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, Jul. 19 – Aug.16, 1945.
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, Aug. 30 – Sep. 27, 1945.
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California,
Oct. 11 – Nov. 8, 1945.
J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky,
Nov. 22 – Dec. 20, 1945.
Alexandria Art League, Alexandria, Louisiana, Jan.3 – Jan. 24, 1946.
Person Hall Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
North Carolina, Feb.7 – Mar. 7, 1946.
Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, Mar. 21 – Apr. 19, 1946.
Literature:
José Gómez Sicre, Cuadernos de Plástica Cubana I, Carreño,
Ediciones Galería del Prado, Havana, 1943, illustrated in color.
José Gómez Sicre, Cuban Painting of Today, María Luisa Gómez
Mena,
Havana, 1944, p. 9.
Edward Alden Jewell, “Cuba’s Pacemakers,” New York Times,
March 26, 1944, discussed.
“Cuban Rhythm,” Dayton, Ohio News Week, April 3, 1944, discussed.
“El Arte Cubano,” Carteles, April 30, 1944, installation view.
Alfred Hamilton Barr, “Pintura Cubana en Nueva York,” Norte,
Vol. 4,
No. 9, July 1944, discussed.
José Gómez Sicre, “Pintores Cubanos Modernos,” La Revista Belga,
July, 1944, illustrated.
Harry Salpeter, “Carreño the Cubanist,” Esquire, September 1944,
discussed.
José Gómez Sicre, Art of Cuba in Exile, Editora Munder, Miami,
1987, p. 53, installation view.
Lowery S. Sims, et al, Wifredo Lam and his Contemporaries
1938-1952
(exhibition catalog), The Studio Museum in Harlem,
New York,
Harry N. Abrams, 1992, p. 64, illustrated.
Maria Lluïsa & Antonio Zaya, Cuba Siglo XX: modernidad y
sincretismo
(exhibition catalog), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria,
Centro Atlántico
de Arte Moderno; Palma, Fundación “La Caixa;”
Barcelona,
Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, April-December 1996,
p. 38, illustrated.
Jacqueline Barnitz, Twentieth-Century Art of Latin America,
University of Texas Press, Austin, 2001, p. 124, no. 4.8,
illustrated in color.
Professor Alejandro Anreus, Ph.D., Modern Art in 1940s
Cuba: Havana's Artists, Critics, and Exhibitions, University
of Florida Press, 2025, page 151.
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