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Portrait No. 4
(Retrato No. 4)
Author: Tomás Esson
Year: 1994
Medium: oil on linen
Size: 68 x 68 inches
Inventory No: 03841
Price: $
SOLD
Provenance:
Ramis Barquet Gallery, New York, New York.
Exhibited in Manuel Mendive and Three Centuries
of Afro Cuban Artists, Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables,
Florida, Nov. 2013 – Feb. 2014, and illustrated
digitally on cernudaarte.com, exhibitions.
Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN ARTWORKS,
Volume Fifteen, Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, FL,
2017, page 77.
Acquired by a Private Collector in Palmetto Bay, FL.
“In my work the human figure as such was assuming
a lesser position and the bestial aspect was growing in
significance. I admit that this type of work which I do
often repels people and disgusts them. Yet at the same time
people are fascinated by it; they want to look at it and
they have a certain reaction to it. It’s the manifestation
of an ambiguity that is a part of the work itself.”
Tomás Esson in an interview with Edward J. Sullivan,
published in Tomás Esson, October, 1993.
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