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ANGEL ACOSTA LEÓN (1930 – 1964)
Self Portrait
(Autorretrato), 1959
oil on Masonite
30 x 19 7⁄8 inches

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Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Twenty
,
page 85.

This painting is dated on the front
and signed on the back with a dedication,
“To my friend Fermín, so that we always
be children…. Acosta León, Cuba."
Fermín Borges was the director of
the National Theater in Havana,
who shared a room with the artist
in Casa Cuba, Paris France.

Exhibited in Acosta León/Sosabravo,
Galería Habana, Arte y Cinema,
Vedado, Cuba, November 1959.

Exhibited in Art Miami Fair,
Miami, Florida, December, 2018.

Exhibited in El Pasado Mío/
My Own Past: Afrodescendant
Contributions to Cuban Art
and Afrocubanismo: Highlights
from the Ramón and Nercys Cernuda
Collection,
Lowe Art Museum,
University of Miami, Coral Gables,
Florida, curated by Professor
Alejandro de la Fuente,
April 30 – September 12, 2026.

Illustrated in Vida Cultural y
Artística, Dos en Una,
Rafael
Marquina, Información, Havana,
December 12, 1959.




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