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Fidelio Ponce De León (1895 – 1949)
The Procession
(La Procesión), ca 1944
oil on canvas
27 x 35 inches

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Nineteen,
page 44.

Provenance:
Margot del Monte Collection,
Havana, Cuba.

Exhibited in Exposición de Óleos de
Fidelio Ponce de León, University of
Havana, Cuba, August 1948, and listed
in the corresponding catalog, no. 31.

Exhibited in Latin American Art,
Sotheby’s, New York, New York, Nov.
25-26, 1986, and illustrated in the
exhibition catalog, no. 69.

“One of Ponce’s only attempts at
panoramic compositions is Procesión
(Procession), 1940’s. This impressive
painting shows a devout procession from
a certain distance, in a desolate and
expansive landscape. Closer to the
viewer, we see the backs of a group of
female spectators kneeling and looking
towards the long and seemingly slow
caravan of hardly identifiable figures,
who are carrying a devotional statue
and other religious objects.”

Juan A. Martínez,
from the forthcoming book
Fidelio Ponce de León: A Cuban Original,
Manuscript, page 68

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