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Amelia Peláez (1896 - 1968)
The Sisters
(Las Hermanas), 1943
mixed media on heavy paper
laid down on board
37 x 29 ½ inches
Private Collection, Miami, FL.
Provenance:
Galería del Prado, Havana;
Ilka Chase Collection, New York;
Orville & Carolyn Stover Collection;
Exhibited in Modern Cuban Painters
at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA),
New York, Mar. 17 – May 7 1944,
curated by Alfred Barr, and listed
in Modern Cuban Painters, Museum of
Modern Art Bulletin, Vol. XI, No. 5,
page 14, Apr. 1944.
Exhibited in Amelia Peláez: The
Craft of Modernity, at the Pérez Art
Museum, Miami, FL, Dec. 4, 2013 to
Feb. 23, 2014, and illustrated in
the corresponding catalog, page 68
and 69.
Illustrated in Pintura cubana de
hoy, José Gómez Sicre, Editor María
Luisa Gómez Mena, Habana, Cuba,
1944, p. 57.
Illustrated in Amelia Peláez, A
Retrospective, 1896 – 1968, Cuban
Museum of Arts and Culture, Miami,
FL, July – Aug. 1988, page 55.
This work is accompanied by a
Certificate of Authenticity signed
by Ramón Vázquez Díaz and José
Veigas Zamora.
Exhibited in The Lost Generation:
Women Ceramicists and the Cuban
Avant-Garde, McMullen Museum of Art,
Boston College, Boston, MA,
Jan. to Jun., 2024, curated by Dr.
Elizabeth Thompson Goizueta.
Second venue, at Frost Art Museum,
Florida International University,
Miami, FL, Jun. 29 to Sep. 29, 2024,
and illustrated in the corresponding
exhibition catalog, page 137.
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