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MARIO CARREÑO (1913 – 1999)
Afro-Cuban Religious Ceremony Room
(Cuarto Fambá), 1943
mixed media on heavy paper
laid down on cardboard
31 x 22 ½ inches

To be illustrated in the upcoming
catalog IMPORTANT CUBAN ARTWORKS,
Volume Twenty-Two, Cernuda
Arte,
Coral Gables, Florida, December 2026.


Provenance:
Perls Galleries, New York, NY.

Exhibitions:
Exhibited in Mario Carreño, Perls Galleries,
New York, NY, March 13 – April 15, 1944,
and listed as number 13 in the corresponding
catalog.

Exhibited in Paintings, temperas and
drawings by Mario Carreño,
and listed
as number 28 in the corresponding
catalog at the following venues:
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco,
CA, August - September, 1944.
Pioneer Museum and Haggin Art Galleries,
Stockton, CA, November, 1944.
E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA,
December, 1944.
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR,
January, 1945.
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington,
February - March, 1945.

Exhibited in Six Latin American
Painters
at the following venues:
Atkins Museum of Fine Arts,
Kansas City, MO, April, 1946.
San Francisco Museum of Art,
San Francisco, CA, May 10 – June 9, 1946.
Cranbrook Academy of Art,
Bloomfield Hills, MI, June 26 – July 30.
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts,
Dallas, TX, 1946.

Literature:
Illustrated in “Afro-Cuban Ceremony Room”,
Detroit Free Press, Detroit, MI,
June 30, 1946, page 16.

Illustrated in “Afro-Cuban Ceremony Room”,
The San Francisco Examiner,
San Francisco, CA., June 2, 1946,
page 123.

Illustrated in the catalog Wifredo Lam
and his contemporaries,
1938 - 1952,
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY,
1992, on page 65.

Illustrated in Relecturas de Carpentier,
Asturias, Rulfo y García Márquez,
Erik
Camayd-Freixas, University Press of America,
Lanham, Maryland, 1998, on page 30.

Illustrated in Cuadernos de la Plástica
Cubana. Carreño, José Gómez Sicre,
Ediciones Galería del Prado, Havana, 1943,
n.p., b&w illustration.

Written about in “Auge y Expresión de la
pintura en Cuba”
Loló de la Torriente,
Cuadernos Americanos, Mexico City, Mexico,
Vo. 16, N.4, July – August, 1944, page 234.



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