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ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES - APRIL 2025
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Untitled [The Family]
(Sin Título [La Familia])
Wifredo Lam
1978
mixed media and pastel laid down on board
11 3/4 x 16 1/2 inches
signed, inscribed and dated right WLAM, St. Gallen 1 Oct 1978.
AVAILABLE
Provenance:
Erker Galerie, St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Exhibited at Palm Beach Modern and Contemporary
Art Fair, Palm Beach, Florida, March, 2025.
Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN ARTWORKS,
Volume Twenty-One, Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, FL,
2024, page 32.
This painting is accompanied by a
Photo-Certificate of Authenticity
signed by Eskil Lam, numbered 24-31.
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I Want To See You Again
(Quiero Volver a Verte)
Miguel Florido
2014
oil on canvas
13 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches
SOLD
Provenance:
Acquired directly from the artist.
Exhibited in Miguel Florido: Choices,
Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, FL, April - June 2018,
and illustrated digitally on cernudaarte.com,
exhibitions.
Exhibited at Palm Beach Modern and Contemporary
Art Fair, Palm Beach, Florida, January, 2022.
Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN ARTWORKS,
Volume Thirteen, Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, FL,
2015, page 139.
Acquired by a Private Collector in Coral Gables, Florida.
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Vestiges
(Vestigios)
Irina Elén González
2025
acrylic on canvas
47 1/4 x 35 1/2 inches
AVAILABLE
Provenance:
Acquired directly from the artist.
Exhibited at Palm Beach Modern and Contemporary
Art Fair, Palm Beach, Florida, March, 2025.
To be illustrated in the upcoming catalog
IMPORTANT CUBAN ARTWORKS, Volume Twenty-Two,
Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, Florida, December 2026.
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Song of the Waters
(El Canto de las Aguas)
Giosvany Echevarría
2024
oil on canvas
33 1/4 x 62 inches
SOLD
Provenance:
Acquired directly from the artist.
Exhibited in Art Miami Fair,
Miami, Florida, December, 2024.
Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN ARTWORKS,
Volume Twenty-One, Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, FL,
2024, page 125.
Acquired by a Private Collector in Coral Gables, Florida.
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The Sisters Num. 59/150
(Las Hermanas Num. 59/150)
Cundo Bermúdez
1994
lithograph on heavy paper, unframed
39 1/2 x 27 3/4 inches
AVAILABLE
Provenance:
Manuel Delgado Collection, Caracas, Venezuela.
Exhibited in Art Wynwood Fair,
Miami, Florida, February, 2024.
Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN ARTWORKS,
Volume Twenty, Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, FL,
2023, page 62.
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Apostroph' Apocalypse #6620 [Series XVIII of XXV]
Wifredo Lam (Lithographs)
1967
acquatint on Japanese paper
20 x 15 inches
SOLD
Illustrated in Wifredo Lam: Oeuvre Gravé et
Lithographié, Catalogue Raisonné, Musée de
Gravelines, France, 1993, page 89, no. 6620.
Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN ARTWORKS, Volume Twenty,
Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, Florida, 2023, page 34.
Acquired by a Private Collector in Key Largo, Florida.
Wifredo Lam's remarkable suite of prints,
Apostroph'Apocalypse, exemplifies his most
audacious printmaking work.
The series was conceived as an art book,
created in collaboration with the avant-garde
writer Gherasim Luca during the mid-1960s,
amid rising global nuclear tensions.
Lam’s draftsmanship reached new heights, reimagining
his iconic human-horse hybrids as weaponized phantoms
soaring through negative space – sensuous, vivid, and
surreal. Beyond the mere assuredness of the line, works
from this series have an uncanny texture and color.
The distinctive shades are the product of a technique
created by Wifredo Lam in collaboration with renowned
printmaker Giorgio Upiglio in Milan, which allowed Lam
to draw directly on plates coated with powdered pigment.
Only 25 copies of Lam's hand-signed and numbered
prints from this series, produced on Japanese paper,
exist. These individually signed and numbered Japanese
paper editions have become among the artist’s most
coveted prints. Lam's 14 plates from Apostroph’Apocalypse,
executed in a bold and experimental process, have graced
esteemed institutions like the Centre Pompidou Paris;
National Library, Paris; Nationalmuseum, Stockholm;
Villa Medici, Rome; Palazzo della Permanente, Milan;
Yokohoma Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan; Fine Arts
Central Academy, Beijing; Institute of Fine Arts, Hong Kong;
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels; Fundació La Caixa, Barcelona;
Musée du dessin et de l’estampe Original, Gravelines, France;
and the Asian Art Archives, among many others.
NICO HOUGH
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Blue Flower
(Flor Azul)
Jorge Luis Santos
2020
acrylic on canvas
58 x 59 inches
signed and dated on reverse
AVAILABLE
Provenance:
Acquired directly from the artist.
Exhibited at Palm Beach Modern and Contemporary
Art Fair, Palm Beach, Florida, March, 2025.
Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN ARTWORKS,
Volume Twenty-One, Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, FL,
2024, page 150.
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A Scene from Sancti Spiritus
(Una Escena de Sancti Spíritus)
Oscar Fernández Morera
1920
oil on canvas
31 1/2 x 24 inches
SOLD
Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN ARTWORKS,
Volume Eight, Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, FL,
2010, page 15.
Acquired by a Private Collector in New York.
Oscar Fernández Morera was a self-taught prolific
artist, whose preferred subjects were urban scenes,
portraits and still-lifes, mostly inspired in places,
people and elements of the province of Las Villas,
Cuba, where he was born and lived. Of his body of work,
art historian, Manuel Echevarría Gómez has written,
“We must recognize the protagonism of the light
of the tropics in his palette, the vibrancy of sun
light and the exuberance of nature in his works.”
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The White Model
(El Modelo Blanco)
Danuel Méndez
2024
acrylic on canvas
72 x 60 inches
AVAILABLE
Provenance:
Acquired directly from the artist.
Exhibited at Palm Beach Modern and Contemporary
Art Fair, Palm Beach, Florida, March, 2025.
Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN ARTWORKS,
Volume Twenty-One, Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, FL,
2024, page 137.
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Gathering My Nostalgias
(Hilvanando Mis Nostalgias)
Irina Elén González
2019
acrylic on canvas
15 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches
SOLD
Provenance:
Acquired directly from the artist.
Exhibited in Art Wynwood Fair,
Miami, Florida, February, 2022.
Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN ARTWORKS,
Volume Eighteen, Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, FL,
2021, page 172.
Acquired by a Private Collector in Miami, Florida.
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The River
(El Río)
Enrique Casas
2023
oil on canvas
19 x 16 inches
AVAILABLE
Acquired directly from the artist.
Exhibited in Enrique Casas: Time Has Stopped,
Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, Florida,
Sep. 2023 - Jan. 2024, and illustrated digitally
on cernudaarte.com, exhibitions.
Exhibited in Art Wynwood Fair,
Miami, Florida, February, 2024.
Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN ARTWORKS,
Volume Twenty, Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, FL,
2023, page 142.
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Seated Woman
(Mujer Sentada)
Roberto Diago
1944
mixed media on heavy paper
14 3/4 x 11 inches
SOLD
A self-portrait of the artist is represented
on the reverse, dated 27th of October, 1944,
Double sided artwork, signed by Josefina Urfé,
widow of Roberto Diago, on behalf of the artist.
Exhibited in Important Modern Masters,
Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, FL, Apr. – Sep. 2023,
and illustrated digitally on cernudaarte.com,
exhibitions.
Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN ARTWORKS,
Volume Eighteen, Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, FL,
2021, page 68.
We are grateful to Juan Roberto Diago,
grandson of the artist, for having confirmed
the authenticity of this artwork.
Acquired by a Private Collector in Key Biscayne, Florida.
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The Birthday Cake
(El Pastel de Cumpleaños)
Yasiel Elizagaray
2024
oil on canvas
47 x 55 inches
AVAILABLE
Provenance:
Acquired directly from the artist.
To be illustrated in the upcoming catalog
IMPORTANT CUBAN ARTWORKS, Volume Twenty-Two,
Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, Florida, December 2026.
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Making Coffee
(Haciendo Café)
Vicente Hernández
2019
oil on canvas
39 x 9 1/2 inches
SOLD
Provenance:
Acquired directly from the artist.
Exhibited in Art Wynwood Fair
Miami, Florida, February, 2020.
Exhibited in Vicente Hernández, Art as Protest,
Protest as Art, Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, Florida,
July, 2021, and illustrated digitally on cernudaarte.com,
exhibitions.
Exhibited in Art Miami Fair,
Miami, Florida, December, 2021.
Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN ARTWORKS,
Volume Eighteen, Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, FL,
2021, page 166.
Acquired by a Private Collector in Coral Gables, Florida.
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Three Flying Birds
(Tres Aves Voladoras)
Manuel Mendive
1998
oil and collage on canvas
45 1/2 x 52 1/4 inches
SOLD
Provenance:
Private Collection, Miami, FL.
Exhibited in Manuel Mendive, Gary Nader Fine Arts,
Miami, FL, 1999, and illustrated in the corresponding
catalog, unnumbered page.
Exhibited in A Surrealist Century /
Un Siglo Surrealista, Cernuda Arte,
Coral Gables, FL, Aug. – Nov. 2024,
and illustrated digitally on cernudaarte.com,
exhibitions.
Exhibited in Art Miami Fair,
Miami, Florida, December, 2024.
Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN ARTWORKS,
Volume Twenty-One, Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, FL,
2024, page 107.
Acquired by a Private Collector in Key Biscayne, Florida.
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Happy Girl
(Niña Feliz)
Juan Roberto Diago
2022
bronze sculpture 2/2
38 x 31 x 16 inches
AVAILABLE
Provenance:
Acquired directly from the artist.
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Extended Ceramic Dining Set,
one-of-a-kind crockery, 30 pieces
Amelia Peláez
1959-1962
individually painted and signed by the artist
six plates: 10 1/2 inches in diameter each;
six plates: 8 1/2 inches in diameter each;
six plates: 3/4 inches in diameter each;
six ceramic saucers: 4 3/4 inches in diameter each
six ceramic espresso cups: 1 3/4 inches in height, 2 3
SOLD
From this set of one-of-a-kind crockery, a group
of 18 plates, each individually painted and signed,
1959-1962, were exhibited in Amelia Peláez: The Craft
of Modernity, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL,
curated by René Morales and Ingrid W. Elliott,
Dec. 2013 - Feb. 2014, and illustrated in the
corresponding book, pages 104 and 105.
From this set of one-of-a-kind crockery, a group of Six Espresso
Coffee Cups with Saucers, Exhibited in Cuban Art in the 20th
Century: Cultural Identity and the International Avant-Garde,
Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL,
February 12 - March 27, 2016, curated by Segundo J. Fernandez,
PhD, and illustrated in the accompanying catalog, page 82
Also exhibited in Cuban Art in the 20th Century:
Cultural Identity and the International Avant-Garde
at the Coral Gables Museum, Coral Gables, FL,
from January 22 - April 23, 2017.
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.
Also exhibited, same exhibition, at Frost Art Museum,
Florida International University, Miami, FL, Jun. 29
to Sep. 29, 2024, and illustrated in the corresponding
exhibition catalog, page 222.
One espresso coffee cup and one saucer appear
illustrated in the book Amelia Peláez, Cerámica,
María Elena Jubrias, Ediciones Vanguardia Cubana,
2008, page 80.
Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN ARTWORKS,
Volume Nineteen, Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, FL,
2022, page 25.
Acquired by a Private Collector in Key Biscayne, Florida.
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Empire
(Imperio)
Danuel Méndez
2023
acrylic on canvas
60 x 48 inches
SOLD
Provenance:
Acquired directly from the artist.
Exhibited in Important Contemporary Masters,
Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, Florida,
April - September 2023, and illustrated digitally
on cernudaarte.com, exhibitions.
Acquired by a Private Collector in Miami, Florida.
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Self Portrait
(Autorretrato)
Agustín Cárdenas drawings
ca 1948
graphite on paper
12 x 8 3/4 inches
AVAILABLE
Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN ARTWORKS,
Volume Eight, Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, FL,
2010, page 70.
This work on paper by Agustín Cárdenas is part of a larger
collection of drawings that were executed during the artist's
formative years at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes,
San Alejandro, from 1943 to 1949. This cache of works was
kept for decades by the artist's brother, Luis Cárdenas Alfonso,
and later by his sister-in-law, Hilda Peñalver Sánchez. In many
of these drawings, Agustín Cárdenas depicts scenes of everyday life.
Common folk of the working class, beggars, farmhands and people
of color. This subject matter of social commentary in the body
of work of Cárdenas has not been fully researched, and deserves
to be recognized.
Ramón Cernuda
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