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Self Portrait
(Autorretrato)
Author: Agustín Cárdenas drawings
Year: ca 1948
Medium: graphite on paper
Size: 12 x 8 3/4 inches
Inventory No: 02333
Price: $
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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