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Sailboat at the Port of Concarneau I
(Velero en el Puerto de Concarneau I)
Author: Pastor Argudín
Year: 1920
Medium: oil on wood
Size: 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches
Inventory No: 07335
Price: $
AVAILABLE
To be illustrated in the upcoming catalog
IMPORTANT CUBAN ARTWORKS, Volume Twenty-One,
Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, Florida, December 2024.
Pastor Argudín Pedroso (1880-1968) his black parents had
been enslaved in Havana; his father Argudín Lombillo was
enslaved by the Casa de Lombillo in Habana Vieja, and his
mother María de Jesús Pedroso had been enslaved by the
Casa de Pedroso. Argudín Pedroso attended one of Salvador
José Zapata's elementary schools in Havana. At a young age,
he studied art under Spanish painter and decorative artist,
Francisco Piera. He was promoted for his natural skills,
and worked on painting the ceiling of
La Merced Church.
He attended college at the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes
San Alejandro in Havana. He studied at the Academy under
Leopoldo Romańach, Armando Menocal, Luis Mendoza Sandrino,
and Miguel Melero Rodríguez. This was followed by a 1912
scholarship to study in Madrid, Spain at the Real Academia
de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, where he conferred a
bachelor's degree. In Spain, he studied under José Moreno
Carbonero, Miguel Blay, Cecilio Plá, and Gonzalo Bilbao.
Argudín Pedroso lived and worked in France, Italy, and the
United States during the 1920s and 1930s. He continued his
studies at Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma in Rome; followed
by training at the Académie de la Grande Chaumičre in Paris
under Émile-René Ménard. Argudín Pedroso was a guest of
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, and lived at his house in Brooklyn,
New York for almost one year in the 1930s.
Argudín Pedroso is said to have painted some 300 portraits
by 1937, many of which were notable people. Some of his
portrait subjects included Rafael María de Labra, Cayetano
Quesada
(Cuban consul in New York City), Arturo Alfonso
Schomburg,
John La Farge, Rev. John LaFarge Jr., and Abraham
Lincoln,
among others. Argudin exhibited at the Société des
Artistes Indépendants in Paris, starting around 1924; and he
was part
of the noted group exhibition, "1933 Exhibition of
the Work
of Negro Artists", hosted by the Harmon Foundation
at the Art Centre in New York City.
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