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Oggun The Warrior
(Oggun, Guerrero)
Author: Manuel Mendive
Year: 1992
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 30 x 40 inches
Inventory No: 02263
Price: $
SOLD
Exhibited in Cuban and Latin American
Painting and Sculpture, Cernuda Arte,
Coral Gables, FL, Dec. 2012. Feb. 2013,
and illustrated digitally on cernudaarte.com,
exhibitions.
This painting is accompanied by a
Photo-Certificate of Authenticity signed
by Dr. Guillermina Ramos Cruz.
Dr. Ramos Cruz is the author of the
book Lam y Mendive, Arte Afrocubano,
Linkgua Ediciones, Barcelona, Spain, 2009.
Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN ARTWORKS,
Volume Eight, Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, FL,
2021, page 122.
Acquired by a Private Collector in
Palmetto Bay, Florida.
In this work, the penumbrous atmosphere is achieved
by the use of shades of darker colors; silver, gray
and black, impacted by blows of light... suggesting
an ambiance of mystery and nocturnity. The figurative
elements allude to Oggun, the orisha warrior, and on
the center left of the work, the weapons attributable
to this orisha: the ax, the pick and the horseshoe...
showing on the upper right are, the bow and the
three arrows, the tools of the hunter...
Dr. Guillermina Ramos Cruz
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