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René Portocarrero (1912 – 1985)
Composition
(Composición), 1952
mixed media on heavy paper laid down on board
14 7/8 x 10 3/4 inches

Private Collection, Coral Gables, FL.

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Twelve,
page 30.

Provenance:
Private Collection, Paris, France.

Exhibited in EXPO Chicago Art Fair,
Festival Hall, Navy Pier, Chicago,
Illinois, September, 2015.

Illustrated in the book PORTOCARRERO,
Ramón Vázquez Díaz, Fundación Arte
Cubano, Artes Gráficas Palermo,
Madrid, Spain, 2015, page 234.

Art critic Loló de la Torriente
commented, in 1952, that René
Portocarrero's paintings of the past
three years (1949-1952) had taken an
adventurous turn towards abstraction.
It was as if the baroque painter of
magic realism had taken a break from
the sinous curves and the impenetrable
compositions and had opted for a simple,
direct, linear plastic discourse where
less was said and more insinuated.

The artist presented his homage to
abstraction (in reality a form of
deconstructed geometric figuration)
at the Havana Lyceum exhibition of
December 1952, where he presented
floating cities, human compositions,
and shooting galleries.

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