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MODERN ART: The Vanguardia artists,
A Historical Exhibition, 2nd Floor, 3155 Building.

Exhibition Photos

A selection of works by the master of the tropical baroque,
René Portocarrero, demonstrates the artist's striking
creative range and his mastery of line and color.

René Portocarrero (1912 – 1985)
City
(Ciudad), 1954
mixed media on board laid down on canvas
13 1/4 x 17 1/4 inches

Private Collection, Water Mill, New York.

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Seventeen,
page 50.

Provenance:
Odette Lavergne, Paris, France;
Beatriz Asúnsolo, México City.

Exhibited in Cuban Art in the 20th
Century, Cultural Identity and the
International Avant Garde, Florida
State University Museum of Fine Arts,
Tallahassee, FL., Feb. 12 to March
27, 2016 and illustrated on the cover
and on page 87 of the corresponding
exhibition catalog.

An exhibiton which traveled to the
Coral Gables Museum, Coral Gables,
FL., January 23 to April 23, 2017.

This painting is accompanied by
a Certificate of Authenticity
signed by Ramón Vázquez Díaz and
José Veigas, dated March 26, 2009.

René Portocarrero (1912 – 1985)
Queens, Maidens and Mermaids
(Reinas, Doncellas y Sirena), 1942
watercolor and ink on paper laid down on heavy board
14 1/2 x 16 1/2 inches

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Twenty,
page 52.

Provenance:
Dr. and Mrs. Francisco Venegas;
Private Collection, Coral Gables, FL.

Exhibited at Sotheby’s Latin American
Art, Nov. 20 – 21, 2001, New York, illustrated
in the auction catalog, page 85, no. 84.

Exhibited in Art Miami Fair,
Miami, Florida, December, 2023.

René Portocarrero (1912 – 1985)
Interior Scene
(Escena interior), 1960
oil on canvas
42 x 25 1/8 inches

Private Collection, Fisher Island, FL.

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Sixteen,
page 63.

Provenance:
Cisneros Gallery, New York.

Exhibited in Sotheby’s New York,
Latin American Paintings, Drawings,
and Sculptures, May 17, 1994 and
illustrated in the corresponding
auction catalog, lot number 60.

René Portocarrero (1912 – 1985)
Composition
(Composición), 1952
mixed media on heavy paper laid down on board
14 7/8 x 10 3/4 inches

Private Collection, Coral Gables, FL.

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Twelve,
page 30.

Provenance:
Private Collection, Paris, France.

Exhibited in EXPO Chicago Art Fair,
Festival Hall, Navy Pier, Chicago,
Illinois, September, 2015.

Illustrated in the book PORTOCARRERO,
Ramón Vázquez Díaz, Fundación Arte
Cubano, Artes Gráficas Palermo,
Madrid, Spain, 2015, page 234.

Art critic Loló de la Torriente
commented, in 1952, that René
Portocarrero's paintings of the past
three years (1949-1952) had taken an
adventurous turn towards abstraction.
It was as if the baroque painter of
magic realism had taken a break from
the sinous curves and the impenetrable
compositions and had opted for a simple,
direct, linear plastic discourse where
less was said and more insinuated.

The artist presented his homage to
abstraction (in reality a form of
deconstructed geometric figuration)
at the Havana Lyceum exhibition of
December 1952, where he presented
floating cities, human compositions,
and shooting galleries.

René Portocarrero (1912 – 1985)
Interior with Women
(Interior con Mujeres), 1947
pastel on heavy paper laid down on museum board
24 1/4 x 18 1/4 inches

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Twenty,
page 54.

Provenance:
Stockholm, Sweden.

Exhibited in Kubanska målare,
Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm
October 29 – November 27, 1949,
and appears illustrated in the
corresponding catalog, page 20,
no. 72.

Exhibited in Palm Beach Modern and
Contemporary Art Fair, Palm Beach,
Florida, March, 2024.

“In 1947, Portocarrero begins to work
on a group of pastels that occupy him
all of that year and are prolonged
sporadically until 1949... in this
collection of pastels it is possible
to find still life’s with flowers,
images from catholic iconography,
interiors with elaborate screen
panels, groups of dancers, harlequins,
and also, the exceptional version of
a native satyr... Brilliant colors
contained by black lines establish a
distorted accent that configures the
grotesque and agitated character of
these works, reflecting moments of
dramatic expressionism.”

Graziella Pogolotti and Ramón Vázquez,
René Portocarrero, Editorial Henschel,
Berlin, 1987.

A suite of works by Portocarrero from the 1940's, 50's and 60's
shows how the artist's treatment of the human form evolved
over decades of production. Included are some of his most important
artistic subjects: the female face, religious iconography
and the pageantry of the Caribbean carnival.

René Portocarrero (1912 – 1985)
Carnival Dancers
(Bailadores de Carnaval), 1945
oil on board laid down on masonite
28 1/4 x 36 1/4 inches

Private Collection, Coral Gables, FL.

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Nineteen,
page 46.

Provenance:
The Brillembourg Capriles Collection.

Exhibited in Intersecting Modernities:
Latin American Art from the Brillembourg
Capriles Collection, Museum of Fine
Arts, Houston, Texas, 2013, and
illustrated in the corresponding
publication, page 132 & 243.

Illustrated on the front cover of
Linden Lane Magazine, Summer,
2022, Belkis Cuza Malé, Director.

René Portocarrero (1912 – 1985)
Ornamented Woman
(Mujer Ornamentada), 1968
mixed media on heavy paper laid down on board
23 x 14 3/4 inches

Private Collection, Water Mill, New York.

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Eighteen,
page 63.

Provenance:
Madame Odette Lavergne Collection,
Havana - Paris, who acquired it
directly from the artist;
Wallace Campbell Collection,
Kingston, Jamaica.

This painting was exhibited at
René Portocarrero in Mexican
Collections, Galería Metropolitana,
Mexico City, Mexico, June, 1985.

Exhibited at Christie's Latin
American Paintings, New York,
November 26, 1985, and illustrated
in the corresponding auction catalog,
lot 83, page 97.

Illustrated in the book PORTOCARRERO,
Ramón Vázquez Díaz, Fundación Arte
Cubano, Artes Gráficas Palermo,
Madrid, Spain, 2015, page 423.

René Portocarrero (1912 – 1985)
Young Lady in Profile
(Muchacha de Perfil), 1964
oil on canvas
33 x 22 3/4 inches

Private Collection, Aventura, FL.

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Seventeen,
page 51.

Provenance:
Private Collection, Coral Gables, FL;
Private Collection, Guadalajara, Mexico.

Exhibited in the show René
Portocarrero, Museo de Arte Moderno,
May 1965, Bosque de Chapultepec,
Mexico, and illustrated in the
corresponding exhibition
catalog, no. 6.

Exhibited and sold at Christie’s
New York, November 1994, lot no. 160,
and illustrated in the corresponding
catalog, page 80.

Exhibited in EXPO Chicago Art Fair,
Festival Hall, Navy Pier, Chicago,
Illinois, September, 2012.

René Portocarrero (1912 – 1985)
Lady in Yellow Background
(Dama en Amarillo), 1958
oil on canvas
28 x 22 inches

Private Collection, Aventura, FL.

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Thirteen,
page 179.

Provenance:
Juan Portela and Andrew Frank,
Decorative Arts, Miami, FL.

René Portocarrero (1912 – 1985)
Woman with Veil and Flowers
(Mujer con Velo y Frutas), 1945
oil on board laid down on canvas
20 x 18 1/2 inches

Private Collection, Water Mill, New York.

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Sixteen,
page 63.

Provenance:
Private Collection, Santo Domingo,
Dominican Republic.

René Portocarrero (1912 – 1985)
Madonna with Angels and Child
(Madonna con Angeles y Niño), 1945
mixed media on heavy paper laid down on board
22 1/4 x 17 5/8 inches

Private Collection, Coral Gables, FL.

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Twenty,
page 49.

Provenance:
Elena Lowenfeld Collection, New York, NY.

Exhibited in RENÉ PORTOCARRERO
(1912 - 1985) Fifteen Creations from
the 1940's to 1970's, Cernuda Arte,
Coral Gables, Florida, Dec. 2020 – July 2021,
and illustrated digitally on cernudaarte.com,
exhibitions.

Illustrated in the book Modern Art in
1940s Cuba: Havana's Artists, Critics, and
Exhibitions, by Professor Alejandro Anreus,
Ph.D., University of Florida Press, 2025,
page 160.

This painting is accompanied by a
Photo-Certificate of Authenticity
signed by Ramón Vázquez Díaz and
José Veigas Zamora, dated
Mar. 15, 2015.

René Portocarrero (1912 – 1985)
Young Lady with Umbrella
(Joven con Sombrilla), 1945
mixed media on heavy paper laid down on canvas
28 x 22 inches

Private Collection, Water Mill, New York.

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Eight,
page 35.

Left, two of Portocarrero's dream-like urban landscapes of Havana
are contrasted against two of his rural landscapes paintings
on the far right. Three works in the center, which address
the human form, exemplify the artists' prodigious draftsmanship
and the stylistic embellishments he is best known for.

René Portocarrero (1912 – 1985)
Landscape of Havana
(Paisaje de La Habana), 1961
oil on canvas
28 x 35 inches

Private Collection, Water Mill, New York.

Provenance:
Marjorie Schatt collection, New York;
Private Collection, Coral Gables, FL.

Illustrated in the book Cuban Art:
Remembering Cuba Through its Art,
Private Collections in Exile, Volume One,
Felipe Del Valle, Diego Costapeuser and
others, Arte al Día, Miami, FL, 2004,
page 153.

Illustrated in the book Portocarrero,
Color de Cuba, Alejo Carpentier,
Ediciones Vanguardia Cubana, 2012,
page 112.

Illustrated in the book PORTOCARRERO:
Obras Escogidas, Ramón Vázquez Díaz,
Fundación Arte Cubano, Artes Gráficas
Palermo, Madrid, 2015, page 373.

René Portocarrero (1912 – 1985)
City of Havana
(Ciudad de La Habana), 1963
mixed media on heavy paper laid down on board
25 1/2 x 30 1/2 inches

Private Collection, Coral Gables, FL.

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Fifteen,
page 61.

Provenance:
Private Collection, Zaragoza, Spain.

Exhibited in Philadelphia Fine Art Fair,
Philadelphia, PA, April 4-7, 2019.

Illustrated in the book PORTOCARRERO,
Ramón Vázquez Díaz, Fundación Arte
Cubano, Artes Gráficas Palermo, Madrid,
2015, front cover, and page 372 and 383.

René Portocarrero (1912 – 1985)
Spring
(Primavera), 1940
graphite on heavy paper laid down on board
23 x 27 1/2 inches

Private Collection, Blas Reyes Collection.

Provenance:
María Luisa Gómez Mena Collection,
Havana, Cuba.

Exhibited in Modern Cuban Painters at the
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York,
Mar. 17 – May 7 1944, curated by Alfred Barr,
and listed in Modern Cuban Painters, Museum of
Modern Art Bulletin, Vol. XI, No. 5, p. 14,
Apr. 1944.

Also Exhibited at the Following Museums:
Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute,
Utica, New York, Oct. 1 – Oct. 30, 1944.
Art Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois,
Dec. 1 – Dec.29, 1944.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.,
Feb. 1 – Mar. 1, 1945.
St. Paul Gallery & School of Art, St. Paul,
Minnesota, Mar. 15 – Apr. 1, 1945.
University Gallery, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 27 – Jun. 24, 1945.
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon,
Jul. 19 – Aug.16, 1945.
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington,
Aug. 30 – Sep. 27, 1945.
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco,
California, Oct. 11 – Nov. 8, 1945.
J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky,
Nov. 22 – Dec. 20, 1945.
Alexandria Art League, Alexandria, Louisiana,
Jan.3 – Jan. 24, 1946.
Person Hall Art Gallery, University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina,
Feb.7 – Mar. 7, 1946.
Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida,
Mar. 21 – Apr. 19, 1946.

Illustrated in Cuban Painting of Today,
José Gómez Sicre, María Luisa Gómez Mena,
Havana, Cuba, 1944, page 122.

Illustrated in the book PORTOCARRERO,
Ramón Vázquez Díaz, Fundación Arte Cubano,
Artes Gráficas Palermo, Madrid, Spain, 2015,
page 52.

René Portocarrero (1912 – 1985)
The Happy Family
(La Familia Feliz), 1944
oil on wood
34 1/2 x 29 inches

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Twenty,
page 51.

Provenance:
Robert Coghlan, Sag Harbor, New York;
Sotheby’s, New York, Latin American
Painting Sale, 7 May 1980;
Blanc Family Collection, Coral Gables, FL;
Private Collection, Pinecrest, FL.

Exhibited in Wifredo Lam and His
Contemporaries 1938 – 1952,
Studio Museum, Harlem, New York,
Dec. 1992 - Apr. 1993, and
illustrated in the accompanying
exhibition catalog, p. 166, no. 103.

Exhibited in Fuego en el Batey,
Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, FL,
July - Aug. 2009, and illustrated
virtually on cernudaarte.com,
exhibitions.

Exhibited in Cuban Art and Identity:
1900-1950, Vero Beach Museum of Art,
Vero Beach, FL, curated by Professor
Juan A. Martínez, Oct. 2013 - Feb. 2014,
and illustrated in the corresponding
museum book, page 47, no. 49.

Exhibited at Palm Beach Modern and
Contemporary Art Fair, Palm Beach,
Florida, March, 2023.

Illustrated in the book PORTOCARRERO,
Ramón Vázquez Díaz, Fundación Arte Cubano,
Artes Gráficas Palermo, Madrid, Spain, 2015,
page 132.

René Portocarrero (1912 – 1985)
Portrait of a Lady
(Retrato de Dama), 1945
mixed media on board
27 3/4 x 20 inches

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Twenty,
page 53.

Exhibited in Art Miami Fair,
Miami, Florida, December, 2023.

This painting is accompanied by a
Photo-Certificate of Authenticity
signed by Ramón Vázquez Díaz,
Fundación Arte Cubano, dated
August 17, 2020.

René Portocarrero (1912 – 1985)
Figure in Yellow
(Figura en Amarillo), 1966
oil on canvas
23 x 16 inches

Private Collection, Water Mill, New York.

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Eleven,
page 42.

signed and dated ‘Portocarrero 66’
on the lower right, also signed, dated,
and inscribed with the title on the
reverse.

Provenance:
Giuseppe Santoro Collection.
(Giuseppe Santoro was an Italian
Diplomat in Cuba.)

This painting was exhibited in
René Portocarrero, Exposición
Retrospectiva, National Museum
of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba,
Aug. 1967, and listed in the
corresponding exhibition
catalog, no. 266.

The National Museum Retrospective
Exhibition label is found on the
back of the painting.

René Portocarrero (1912 – 1985)
Viñales Valley Landscape
(Valle de Viñales Paisaje), 1944
oil on canvas
31 x 23 1/2 inches

Private Collection, Coral Gables, FL.

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Eighteen,
Page 55.

Provenance:
Félix Pita Rodríguez Collection,
Havana, Cuba.

Exhibited (Paisaje) in René Portocarrero,
Exposición Retrospectiva, Museo Nacional,
Havana, Cuba, July, 1967, and listed in
the corresponding museum catalog, number 45.

Illustrated in the book PORTOCARRERO,
Ramón Vázquez Díaz, Fundación Arte
Cubano, Artes Gráficas Palermo,
Madrid 2015, page 126.

Left to Right: an extraordinary Wifredo Lam painting,
landscapes by Fidelio Ponce de León and René Portocarrero,
and still life compositions by Amelia Peláez and Mariano Rodríguez,
among the most significant and influential painters
of the Latin American modernist movement.

Wifredo Lam (1902 - 1982)
Figures
(Figuras), 1973
oil on canvas
31 1/2 x 39 1/4 inches

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Twenty-One,
page 27.

Provenance:
Private Collection, Milan, Italy.

Exhibited in the two-museum show,
Wifredo Lam ou L’Éloge du Métissage,
Rome, Villa Medici, Nov.1992 - Jan. 1993;
which later traveled to the Palazzo della
Permanente, Milan, Italy, Feb. - Mar. 1993,
and illustrated in the corresponding
catalog, page 163.

Exhibited in the two-museum show,
Wifredo Lam. Cuba Italia. Un Percorso,
Milan, Refettorio delle Stelline and
Sondrio, Palazzo Sertoli and Museum of
History and also at Art Palazzo Sassi de’
Lavizzari, Nov. 15, 2002 - Jan. 25, 2003,
and illustrated in the corresponding
catalog page 109, no. 63.

Exhibited in Art Miami Fair,
Miami, Florida, December, 2024.

Illustrated in Wifredo Lam, 1st edition,
Max-Pol Fouchet, Poligrafa-Cercle d’Art,
Barcelona-Paris, 1976, as no. 673.
Also illustrated in Wifredo Lam, Max-Pol
Fouchet, 2nd Ed., Editiones Poligrafa,
Barcelona, 1989, as no. 705.

Illustrated in Wifredo Lam: Catalogue
Raisonné of the Painted Work, Volume II,
1961-1982, Project Director: Eskil Lam,
Acatos, 2002, page 438, no. 73.250.

This painting is accompanied by a
Photo Certificate of Authenticity
signed by Eskil Lam, son of the artist,
Paris, May 27, 2024.

Fidelio Ponce De León (1895 – 1949)
The Procession
(La Procesión), ca 1944
oil on canvas
27 x 35 inches

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Nineteen,
page 44.

Provenance:
Margot del Monte Collection,
Havana, Cuba.

Exhibited in Exposición de Óleos de
Fidelio Ponce de León, University of
Havana, Cuba, August 1948, and listed
in the corresponding catalog, no. 31.

Exhibited in Latin American Art,
Sotheby’s, New York, New York, Nov.
25-26, 1986, and illustrated in the
exhibition catalog, no. 69.

“One of Ponce’s only attempts at
panoramic compositions is Procesión
(Procession), 1940’s. This impressive
painting shows a devout procession from
a certain distance, in a desolate and
expansive landscape. Closer to the
viewer, we see the backs of a group of
female spectators kneeling and looking
towards the long and seemingly slow
caravan of hardly identifiable figures,
who are carrying a devotional statue
and other religious objects.”

Juan A. Martínez,
from the forthcoming book
Fidelio Ponce de León: A Cuban Original,
Manuscript, page 68

René Portocarrero (1912 – 1985)
Viñales Landscape
(Paisaje de Viñales), 1944
oil on cardboard
24 3/4 x 23 1/2 inches

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Twenty-One,
page 50.

Provenance:
Ramón Osuna, Collection,
Havana, Cuba;
Henry Gutiérrez Collection,
San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Exhibited in René Portocarrero,
Exposición Retrospectiva, Museo
Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana,
Cuba, July, 1967, and listed in the
corresponding museum catalog,
number 41.

Illustrated in Pintores Cubanos,
Oscar González Hurtado and
Edmundo Desnoes,Ediciones R,
Havana, Cuba, 1962, page 105.

Illustrated in La Enciclopedia de Cuba,
(all four editions) Arquitectura y
Artes Plásticas, volume seven,
Editorial Playor, Madrid, Spain,
1977, page 163.

Amelia Peláez (1896 - 1968)
Still Life with Fruits
(Naturaleza Muerta con Frutas), 1935
oil on canvas
27 3/4 x 32 inches

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Nineteen,
page 22.

Exhibited in Amelia Peláez, A
Retrospective, National Museum of
Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba, Nov. 1968,
and listed number 60 in the exhibition
catalog.

Exhibited in Amelia Peláez, The Craft
of Modernity, Perez Art Museum, Miami,
December 2013 and illustrated in the
accompanying exhibition book,
pages 44 & 45.

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.

Second venue, at Frost Art Museum,
Florida International University,
Miami, FL, Jun. 29 to Sep. 29, 2024,
and illustrated in the corresponding
exhibition catalog, page 133.

Illustrated in the book Amelia Peláez,
by Alejandro Alonso, Editorial Letras
Cubanas, Havana, Cuba, 1988,
pages 20 and 21.

Illustrated in the book Amelia Peláez,
Cerámica, by María Elena Jubrías,
Ediciones Vanguardia Cubana,
Fundación Arte Cubano, Escandón
Editores, 2008, Sevilla, Spain,
page 18.

This painting is accompanied
by a Certificate of Authenticity
dated Jan. 15, 2001, signed by
Ramón Vázquez Díaz.

Mariano Rodríguez (1912 – 1990)
Still Life
(Bodegón), ca 1940-41
oil on canvas
21 x 25 3/4 inches

To be illustrated in the upcoming
catalog IMPORTANT CUBAN ARTWORKS,
Volume Twenty-Two, Cernuda Arte,
Coral Gables, Florida, December 2026.

Provenance:
Private Collection, Monaco.

Illustrated in Mariano, Catálogo
Razonado, Pintura, dibujo y cerámica,
1950-1966, Volumen II, Vanguardia Cubana
editions, 2008, page 66, numbered 40.27.

Illustrated in Mariano, Tema, Discurso
y Humanidad, Dannys Montes de Oca,
Escandón Impresores, Sevilla, Spain,
2004, pages 126 and 127.

This painting is accompanied by a
Photo-Certificate of Authenticity,
signed by Alejandro and Dolores
Rodríguez, son and daughter of
the artist, dated Oct. 11, 2000.

Three works on paper by the master draftsman, Wifredo Lam
from the 1950's and 1970's, with his iconic Femme Cheval
imagery and unique synthesis of Cubism, Surrealism,
and Afro-Cuban cultural imagery.

Wifredo Lam (1902 - 1982)
Femme Cheval and Bird
(Mujer con Caballo y Pájaro), 1974
pastel on paper laid down on board
30 x 22 inches

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Eleven,
page 53.

Exhibited in A Surrealist Century /
Un Siglo Surrealista, Cernuda Arte,
Coral Gables, FL, Aug. – Nov. 2024,
and illustrated digitally on
cernudaarte.com, exhibitions.

This painting is accompanied by a
Photo-Certificate of Authenticity
signed by Madame Lou Laurin Lam,
dated October 20, 2011, no. 11-25.

Wifredo Lam (1902 - 1982)
Untitled [The Couple]
(Sin Título [La Pareja]), 1971
mixed media on cardboard
18 3/4 x 26 inches

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Twenty-One,
page 30.

Provenance:
Private Collection, Paris, France.

Exhibited at Hôtel Drouot, Paris,
Jan. 29, 1989, and listed as lot 184
in the auction catalog.

Exhibited in A Surrealist Century /
Un Siglo Surrealista, Cernuda Arte,
Coral Gables, FL, Aug. 2024 – Jan. 2025,
and illustrated digitally on
cernudaarte.com, exhibitions.

Exhibited in Art Miami Fair,
Miami, Florida, December, 2024.

This painting is accompanied by a
Photo-Certificate of Authenticity
signed by Eskil Lam, dated Apr. 20,
2024, numbered 24-06.

Wifredo Lam (1902 - 1982)
Untitled [Four Figures and Eleguas]
(Sin Título [Cuatro Figuras y Eleguas]), 1958
pastel on heavy paper
laid down on board
23 1/4 x 35 1/2 inches

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Twenty-One,
page 22.

Exhibited in A Surrealist Century /
Un Siglo Surrealista, Cernuda Arte,
Coral Gables, FL, Aug. 2024 – Jan. 2025,
and illustrated digitally on
cernudaarte.com, exhibitions.

Left to Right, a rare Mario Carreño Duco and oil on canvas works
by Amelia Peláez, Victor Manuel García, and Cundo Bermúdez
highlight the unique blend of tropical light and European
modernism that made the Vanguardia so singular
among international arts movements of the 20th Century.

Amelia Peláez (1896 - 1968)
Still Life with Stained Glass
(Naturaleza Muerta con Vitral), 1960
oil on board
38 5/8 x 30 1/4 inches

Private Collection, Coral Gables, FL.

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Twelve,
page 21.

Provenance:
Private Collection, Zaragoza, Spain.

Exhibited in Three Centuries of Cuban
Art, Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, Florida,
June – October, 2017, and illustrated
digitally on cernudaarte.com,
exhibitions.

Exhibited in Art Wynwood Fair,
Miami, Florida, February, 2019.

This work is accompanied by a
Certificate of Authenticity signed
by Ramón Vázquez Díaz and José Veigas
Zamora, dated October 26, 2012.

Mario Carreño (1913 - 1999)
Maritime Horse
(Caballo Marino), 1943
Duco on canvas laid down on Masonite
24 x 20 inches

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Twenty-One,
page 61.

Provenance:
Perls Galleries, New York, NY;
Farleigh Dickinson University,
New Jersey.

Exhibited in Mario Carreño,
The Lyceum, Havana, November, 1943,
and listed in the corresponding
catalog, no. 12, as Caballo Marino.

Exhibited in Sotheby’s, Latin American
Art, New York, Nov. 23, 1992, lot 49,
and illustrated in the corresponding
auction catalog.

Exhibited in A Surrealist Century /
Un Siglo Surrealista, Cernuda Arte,
Coral Gables, FL, Aug. 2024 – Jan. 2025,
and illustrated digitally on
cernudaarte.com, exhibitions.

Víctor Manuel García (1897 – 1969)
Young Lady with Flower
(Muchacha con Flor), ca 1940s
oil on canvas
21 x 25 inches

Private Collection, Fisher Island, FL.

Provenance:
Private Collection, Dominican Republic.

This painting is accompanied
by a Certificate of Authenticity
signed by Ramón Vázquez Díaz, dated
February 22, 2019, Madrid, Spain.

Left to Right, a curation of works by Vanguardia artists
featuring their best known subjects: an Amelia Peláez still life,
a simple female portrait by Victor Manuel García,
a trio of musicians by Cundo Bermúdez,
a rooster by Mariano Rodríguez,
and the hybrid spirit figures of Wifredo Lam.

Cundo Bermúdez (1914 – 2008)
Trio in C Minor
(Trio en Do Menor), 1968
oil on canvas
42 x 70 inches

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Nineteen,
page 55.

Provenance:
Pepe and Hilda López Collection,
Martha Gutiérrez Fine Arts, Miami, FL.

Exhibited in Homage to Cundo Bermúdez,
Cuban Museum of Arts and Culture,
Miami, Florida, May – June, 1987.
Illustrated in the corresponding
exhibition catalog, page 18.

Mariano Rodríguez (1912 – 1990)
Rooster
(Gallo), 1941
watercolor on paper
13 1/2 x 10 inches

To be illustrated in the upcoming
catalog IMPORTANT CUBAN ARTWORKS,
Volume Twenty-Two, Cernuda Arte,
Coral Gables, Florida, December 2026.

Provenance:
Private Collection, Monaco.

Illustrated in Mariano, Catálogo
Razonado, Pintura y Dibujo, 1936 –
1949, Volume 1, Segunda Edición,
José Veigas, page 90, number 41.80.

Illustrated in the book Mariano,
Tema, Discurso y Humanidad,
Alejandro Rodríguez, General
Coordination, Danny Montes de Oca,
Texts, Escandón Impresores, Sevilla,
Spain, 2004, page 204.

This painting is accompanied by a
Photo-Certificate of Authenticity,
signed by Alejandro and Dolores
Rodríguez, son and daughter of
the artist, dated Sep. 6, 2001.

Wifredo Lam (1902 - 1982)
Untitled [Femme Cheval Eleguas and Bird],
(Sin Título [Mujer Caballo, Eleguas y Pájaro]), 1973
oil on canvas
23 1/2 x 31 1/4 inches

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Twenty-One,
page 29.

Provenance:
Galleria del Naviglio, Milan, Italy.

Exhibited in A Surrealist Century /
Un Siglo Surrealista, Cernuda Arte,
Coral Gables, FL, Aug. 2024 – Jan. 2025,
and illustrated digitally on
cernudaarte.com, exhibitions.

Exhibited in EXPO Chicago Art Fair,
Festival Hall, Navy Pier, Chicago,
Illinois, April, 2025.

This painting is accompanied by a
Photo-Certificate of Authenticity,
signed by Eskil Lam, numbered
24-07, and dated April 20, 2024.

Two expressionistic landscapes by Fidelio Ponce de León
are flanked by an exquisite Luís Martínez Pedro illustration
on the left and a Martínez Pedro painting on the right.
On the rightside wall, a vivid and sensuous still life
by the legendary Amelia Peláez.

Luis Martínez Pedro (1910 – 1989)
Portrait with Cuban Landscape
(Retrato con Paisaje Cubano), 1941
pencil on paper
22 x 19 inches

Blas Reyes Collection.

Provenance:
Private Collection, Rio de Janeiro.

Exhibited at Christie's, Latin American
Art Auction, New York, May 19, 1992,
lot no. 117.

Illustrated in Cuban Painting of Today,
José Gómez Sicre, María Luisa Gómez Mena,
Havana, Cuba, 1944, page 174.

Illustrated in The Lost Generation:
Women Ceramicists and the Cuban Avant-
Garde, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston
College, Boston, MA, 2024, curated by
Dr. Elizabeth Thompson Goizueta,
page 30.

Illustrated in the book Modern Art
in 1940s Cuba: Havana's Artists,
Critics, and Exhibitions, by Professor
Alejandro Anreus, Ph.D., University of
Florida Press, 2025, page 168.

Luis Martínez Pedro (1910 – 1989)
Liberation
(Liberación), 1946
mixed media on cardboard laid down on canvas
20 x 15 inches

Private Collection, Miami, FL.

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Five,
page 40.

Provenance:
Perls Galleries, New York, NY.

This painting was exhibited at Sotheby's
Fine Art, Old Masters to Contemporaries
New York, June 21, 2006, and it appears
illustrated in the corresponding auction
catalog, page 406.

Amelia Peláez (1896 - 1968)
Still Life
(Naturaleza Muerta), 1954
mixed media on board
laid down on canvas
30 x 40 inches

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Twenty,
page 41.

Provenance:
PepsiCo Corporate Collection,
New York, NY;
Agustín Otero Collection,
Leonardville, MD.

Exhibited at the Miami Metropolitan
Museum, Coral Gables, FL, May 1977.

Exhibited in Christie’s, Latin American Art
Auction, New York, NY, November, 1984, and
illustrated in the corresponding auction
catalog, lot number 307.

Exhibited in Amelia Peláez, A Retrospective,
1896 – 1968, Cuban Museum of Arts and
Culture, Miami, FL, July 15 - Aug. 15 1988,
and listed in the corresponding exhibition
catalog, page 108, number 37.

Exhibited in Amelia Peláez, A Retrospective,
1896 - 1968, Museum of Modern Art of
Latin America, Sep. 14 - Oct. 29, 1988.

Illustrated in the book The Lost Generation:
Women Ceramicists and the Cuban Avant-Garde
| La Generación Perdida: Mujeres Ceramistas
y La Vanguardia Cubana, curated by Dr.
Elizabeth Thompson Goizueta, ed, McMullen
Museum of Art, Boston College, Boston, 2023,
page 52, no. 10.

Fidelio Ponce De León (1895 – 1949)
Fish
(Peces), 1940
oil on wood
17 3/8 x 14 1/8 inches

Private Collection, Coral Gables, FL.

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Fourteen,
page 28

Provenance:
Private Collection, Zaragoza, Spain.

Exhibited in Amelia’s Friends and
Colleagues: 14 Master Painters of the
Vanguardia Movement, Cernuda Arte,
Coral Gables, FL, July – Nov. 2022, and
illustrated digitally on cernudaarte.com,
exhibitions.

This painting will be included and
illustrated in the forthcoming book,
Fidelio Ponce de León, A Cuban Original,
by Professor Juan A. Martínez.

This painting is also accompanied
by a certificate of authenticity
signed by Ramón Vázquez Díaz and
José Veigas Zamora.

Fidelio Ponce De León (1895 – 1949)
The River
(El Río), ca 1940
oil on canvas
16 x 20 inches

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Eighteen,
page 12.

Provenance:
María Del Carmen Armenteros Zorrilla,
and by descent, Emeterio Zorrilla.

Exhibited in Fidelio Ponce, 1895 - 1949,
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana,
February 1958, and listed as number 71
in the corresponding museum catalog.

Exhibited in Fidelio Ponce and His
Times, Cuban Museum of Arts and
Culture, Miami, FL, Oct. - Nov. 1992,
and listed as number 23 in the
corresponding museum catalog.

Exhibited in Amelia’s Friends and
Colleagues: 14 Master Painters of
the Vanguardia Movement, Cernuda Arte,
Coral Gables, FL, July – Nov. 2022,
and illustrated digitally on
cernudaarte.com, exhibitions.

Left to Right, a selection of works by Mario Carreño,
Mariano Rodríguez, Fidelio Ponce de León and Felipe Orlando
demonstrate the stylistic and thematic range of the prominent
artists of the 1st and 2nd generations of Cuban avant-garde.

Mariano Rodríguez (1912 – 1990)
Fruits and Reality
(Frutas y Realidad), ca 1969
oil on canvas
25 x 30 inches

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Seventeen,
page 160.

Exhibited in A Selection of Works
by Mariano Rodríguez, Cernuda Arte,
Coral Gables, FL, May – August 2020,
and illustrated digitally on
cernudaarte.com, exhibitions.

Exhibited in EXPO Chicago Art Fair,
Festival Hall, Navy Pier, Chicago,
Illinois, September, 2022.

This painting will be illustrated in
the upcoming book, Mariano: Catálogo
Razonado, Pintura y Dibujo 1967-1990,
Volumen 3, Project Director José Veigas
Zamora, Ediciones Vanguardia Cubana,
Sevilla, Spain, currently in production.

This painting is accompanied by a
Photo-Certificate of Authenticity,
signed by Dolores and Alejandro Rodríguez,
dated Sep. 5, 2019, numbered 686019.

Fidelio Ponce De León (1895 – 1949)
Woman and Her Reflection
(Mujer y Su Reflejo), ca 1944
oil on canvas
24 x 19 1/2 inches

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Twenty,
page 45.

Provenance:
Private Collection, Madrid, Spain.

Exhibited in Images of Women in
Cuban Art, Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, FL,
Nov. 2007 – Jan. 2008, and illustrated
digitally on cernudaarte.com, exhibitions.

Exhibited in Art Miami Fair,
Miami, Florida, December, 2023.

Felipe Orlando (1911 – 2001)
Woman with Hat
(Mujer con Sombrero), ca 1957
oil on board
25 x 15 3/4 inches

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Twenty,
page 64.

Exhibited in Art Miami Art Fair,
Miami, Florida, December, 2023.

Exhibited in A Surrealist Century /
Un Siglo Surrealista, Cernuda Arte,
Coral Gables, FL, Aug. 2024 – Jan. 2025,
and illustrated digitally on
cernudaarte.com, exhibitions.

Felipe Orlando (1911 – 2001)
The Sisters
(Las Hermanas), ca 1955
oil on canvas
21 1/2 x 47 1/4 inches

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Seventeen,
page 63.

Exhibited in Art Miami Fair,
Miami, Florida, December, 2019.

Exhibited in FELIPE ORLANDO (1911-1995)
The Forgotten Vanguardia - 4 Paintings
from the 1950's and 1960's, Cernuda Arte,
Coral Gables, Florida, Apr. – Oct. 2021,
and illustrated digitally on cernudaarte.com,
exhibitions.

Mario Carreño (1913 - 1999)
Women and Horse
(Mujeres y Caballo), 1945
mixed media on board
13 x 16 3/4 inches

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Nineteen,
page 52.

Provenance:
Private Collection, Mexico City,
Mexico;
Private Collection, Miami, Florida.

Exhibited in Mario Carreño, Recent
Paintings, Perls Galleries, New York,
New York, November 1945, no. 18.

Exhibited in Christie’s Latin American
Auction, New York, New York, Nov. 20,
2012, lot no. 95, and illustrated in
the corresponding auction catalog.

Exhibited in Amelia’s Friends and
Colleagues: 14 Master Painters of
the Vanguardia Movement, Cernuda Arte,
Coral Gables, July – Nov. 2022,
and illustrated digitally on
cernudaarte.com, exhibitions.

Luis Martínez Pedro (1910 – 1989)
The Drinker
(El Bebedor), 1935
graphite on paper
18 x 15 1/2 inches

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Nineteen,
page 63.

Exhibited in Cuban Art, Remembering
Cuba Through its Art, Cernuda Arte,
Coral Gables, FL, April – May 2005,
and illustrated digitally on
cernudaarte.com, exhibitions.

Illustrated in the book Cuban Art,
Remembering Cuba Through its Art,
Private Collections in Exile, 2004,
published by Arte al Día International,
from the collection of Felipe del Valle
and Sergio Delgado, page 167.

Left to Right, the haunting realism of Luís Martínez Pedro's
early illustrated work, besides a representative and elegant
painting of Havana by René Portocarrero
and an enigmatic, nearly monochrome work on paper
from the 1970's by Wifredo Lam.

René Portocarrero (1912 – 1985)
Havana City
(Ciudad de La Habana), 1961
oil on canvas
18 1/8 x 14 1/16 inches

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Twenty,
page 56.

Provenance:
Private Collection, Madrid, Spain.

Exhibited in Art Miami Fair,
Miami, Florida, December, 2023.

We are grateful to Fundación Arte Cubano
for having confirmed the authenticity
of their artwork.

Wifredo Lam (1902 - 1982)
Untitled [Figures]
(Sin Título [Figuras]), 1976
mixed media and pastel laid down on board
22 x 30 inches

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Twenty-One,
page 32.

Provenance:
Erker Galerie, St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Exhibited in A Surrealist Century /
Un Siglo Surrealista, Cernuda Arte,
Coral Gables, FL, Aug. 2024 – Jan. 2025,
and illustrated digitally on cernudaarte.com,
exhibitions.

Exhibited in Art Miami Fair,
Miami, Florida, December, 2024.

This painting is accompanied by a
Photo-Certificate of Authenticity
signed by Eskil Lam, numbered 24-33.

Fidelio Ponce De León (1895 – 1949)
Devout Woman
(La Beata), 1943
oil on canvas
25 x 26 inches

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Twenty,
page 44.

Provenance:
Sra. Margot del Monte Collection.

Exhibited in Exposición Fidelio Ponce
de León, 1895-1949, Museo Nacional
de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba, 1958,
and appears listed as no. 77 in the
corresponding catalog.

Exhibited at Christie's, New York, NY,
May 19, 1987, lot 136 and illustrated in
the auction catalog.

Exhibited in A Selection of Modern
(Vanguardia) Cuban Masters Championed
By Dr. Guy Pérez-Cisneros, Cernuda Arte,
Coral Gables, Aug. – Oct.2015, and
illustrated digitally on cernudaarte.com,
exhibitions.

Exhibited in Art Miami Fair,
Miami, Florida, December, 2023.

Left to Right, four diverse and subjective approaches
to traditional portraiture by Felipe Orlando, Mario Carreño
Luís Martínez Pedro, and Fidelio Ponce de León.

Mario Carreño (1913 - 1999)
Woman with Avocado
(Mujer con aguacate), 1943
30 ½ x 22 inches
gouache on paper

Blas Reyes Collection.

Provenance: Perls Galleries, New York;
Private collection, New York;
Christie's, New York, May 18,
1993, lot 110.

Exhibited in Modern Cuban Painters
at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA),
New York, April 1944, curated by
Alfred Barr, and illustrated in
“Modern Cuban Painters”, Museum
of Modern Art Bulletin, Vol. XI,
No. 5, p. 8, Apr. 1944.

Exhibited in Mario Carreño,
Perls Galleries, New York,
New York, Mar. – Apr. 1944.

Also Exhibited at the Following Museums:
Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute,
Utica, New York, Oct. 1 – Oct. 30, 1944.
Art Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois,
Dec. 1 – Dec.29, 1944.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.,
Feb. 1 – Mar. 1, 1945.
St. Paul Gallery & School of Art, St. Paul,
Minnesota, Mar. 15 – Apr. 1, 1945.
University Gallery, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 27 – Jun. 24, 1945.
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon,
Jul. 19 – Aug.16, 1945.
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington,
Aug. 30 – Sep. 27, 1945.
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco,
California, Oct. 11 – Nov. 8, 1945.
J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky,
Nov. 22 – Dec. 20, 1945.
Alexandria Art League, Alexandria, Louisiana,
Jan.3 – Jan. 24, 1946.
Person Hall Art Gallery, University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina,
Feb.7 – Mar. 7, 1946.
Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida,
Mar. 21 – Apr. 19, 1946.

Illustrated in Mario Carreño Selected Works/
Obras selectas, 1936 – 1957, J. Fernández Torna,
Miami, FL, Torna & Prado Fine Art, 2012,
pages 144 and 145.

Luis Martínez Pedro (1910 – 1989)
Figure
(Figura), 1948
mixed media on heavy paper laid down on board
23 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches

Private Collection, Delray Beach, FL.

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Eighteen,
page 44.

This painting was exhibited at Sotheby's
Latin American Art, New York, May 20,
1992, and it appears illustrated in the
corresponding auction catalog, lot 115.

Exhibited in Art Miami Fair,
Miami, Florida, December, 2021.

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 192.

Illustrated in Linden Lane Magazine,
Vol. #40, Spring 2021, on page 15
of the publication.

Felipe Orlando (1911 – 2001)
Female Figure
(Figura Femenina), 1946
oil on paper laid down on canvas by the artist
29 3/4 x 22 inches

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Twenty-One,
page 14.

Illustrated in the book Felipe Orlando,
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México,
Federal District, Mexico, 1981, page 45.

"La magia de su obra es impresionante".
Georges Braque

Fidelio Ponce De León (1895 – 1949)
The Little Niece
(La Sobrinita), 1946
oil on canvas
24 x 20 inches

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Twenty-One,
page 44.

Provenance: Jorge Fernández de Castro
and Marta Sardiñas Collection,
Havana, Cuba.

Exhibited in Ponce, Lyceum Society
of Havana, Cuba, April 1949, no. 26
in the exhibition catalog.

Exhibited at Christie's, Latin American
Art Auction, New York, November 23,
1999, lot no. 128.

Exhibited in Three Centuries of Cuban
Art, Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables,FL,
June – Oct. 2017, and illustrated
digitally on cernudaarte.com,
exhibitions.

Exhibited in Art Miami Fair,
Miami, Florida, Dec. 2024.

A selection of exquisite, smaller format works on paper
and works on board by Mariano Rodríguez and Eduardo Abela.

Mariano Rodríguez (1912 – 1990)
Three Woman in Interior with Flower Vase
(Tres Mujeres en Interior con Florero), ca 1943
mixed media on heavy paper laid down on board
15 x 21 3/4 inches

Exhibited in Mariano, Variations on a
Theme, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston
College, Boston, MA, Sep. – Dec. 2021,
Elizabeth Thompson Goizueta, Ph.D.,
curator, and illustrated in the
corresponding exhibition catalog,
page 53.

Illustrated in Mariano, Catálogo Razonado,
Pintura y Dibujo, 1936 – 1949, Volume 1,
Segunda Edición, José Veigas, page 139,
number 43.47.

Mariano Rodríguez (1912 – 1990)
Woman with Dove
(Mujer con Paloma), 1941
mixed media on heavy paper laid down on board
14 1/8 x 12 inches

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Eighteen,
page 46.

Exhibited in Art Miami Fair,
Miami, Florida, December, 2021.

Exhibited in Amelia’s Friends and
Colleagues: 14 Master Painters of
the Vanguardia Movement, Cernuda Arte,
Coral Gables, July – Nov. 2022, and
illustrated digitally on cernudaarte.com,
exhibitions.

This painting is accompanied
by a Photo-Certificate of Authenticity,
issued and signed by Dr. Dolores Rodríguez,
daughter of the artist.

René Portocarrero (1912 – 1985)
Interior with Flower Vases
(Interior con Floreros), 1942
mixed media on heavy paper laid down on board
13 3/4 x 9 5/8 inches

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Thirteen,
page 54.

Provenance:
William Bowdler Collection;
Acquired directly from the artist.

Exhibited in RENÉ PORTOCARRERO
(1912 - 1985) Fifteen Creations
from the 1940's to 1970's,
Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, FL,
Dec. 2020 – July 2021, and
illustrated digitally on
cernudaarte.com, exhibitions.

Eduardo Abela (1889 – 1965)
Nude
(Desnudo), ca 1928
oil on paper laid down on board
20 1/2 x 15 3/4 inches

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Nineteen,
page 168.

Provenance:
Maritza Alonso, sister-in-law of the
artist; Hosanna Abela, by inheritance.

Exhibited in Eduardo Abela,
A One-Person Show, Cernuda Arte,
Coral Gables, FL, Aug. - Oct. 2015,
and illustrated digitally on
cernudaarte.com, exhibitions.

This painting is illustrated in the
book, Eduardo Abela – Cerca del Cerco,
José Seoane Gallo, Editorial Letras
Cubanas, 1986, page 492.

Illustrated in the book, Eduardo Abela,
de lo Real a lo Imaginario, Obras
Escogidas, Yolanda Wood and Roberto
Cobas, Ediciones Vanguardia Cubana,
2010, page 43.

Nude (Desnudo) was painted shortly
after Abela's arrival to Paris in 1927.
It is believed that this painting was
one of the six works on paper that were
included as part of the artist's famous
solo exhibition at Galerie Zak, Paris,
December, 1928.

Eduardo Abela (1889 – 1965)
The Fool
(El Bobo), ca 1932
ink on heavy paper laid down on board
11 1/8 x 8 inches

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Twelve,
page 63.

Provenance:
Hosanna Abela;
Private Collection, Madrid, Spain.

Exhibited in Eduardo Abela,
A One-Person Show, Cernuda Arte,
Coral Gables, FL, Aug. - Oct. 2015,
and illustrated digitally on
cernudaarte.com, exhibitions.

Eduardo Abela (1889 – 1965)
The Fool
(El Bobo), 1953
ink on heavy paper laid down on cardboard
8 3/4 x 6 inches

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Twelve,
page 63.

Provenance:
Hosanna Abela;
Private Collection, Miami, Florida

Exhibited in Eduardo Abela,
A One-Person Show, Cernuda Arte,
Coral Gables, Florida, Aug. - Oct. 2015,
and illustrated digitally on
cernudaarte.com, exhibitions.

Exhibited in AMELIA’S FRIENDS AND
COLLEAGUES: 14 Master Painters of the
Vanguardia Movement, Cernuda Arte,
Coral Gables, Fl, July - Nov. 2022,
and illustrated digitally on
cernudaarte.com, exhibitions.

Eduardo Abela (1889 – 1965)
Blushing Young Lady
(Muchacha Sonrojada), ca 1957
oil on wood
7 1/4 x 9 7/8 inches

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Eighteen,
page 24.

Provenance:
Private Collection, Miami Beach, Florida.

Exhibited in Eduardo Abela, A One-Person
Show, Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, FL,
Aug. – Oct. 2015, and illustrated
digitally on cernudaarte.com,
exhibitions.

Exhibited in Eduardo Abela (1889 – 1965)
A World of Dreams... A Dream of Worlds
– 8 Paintings, 1940's to 1960's,
Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, FL,
Dec. 2020 – Jun. 2021, and illustrated
digitally on cernudaarte.com,
exhibitions.

Exhibited in AMELIA’S FRIENDS AND
COLLEAGUES: 14 Master Painters of the
Vanguardia Movement, Cernuda Arte,
Coral Gables, Fl, July – Nov. 2022,
and illustrated digitally on
cernudaarte.com, exhibitions.

Antonio Gattorno (1904 - 1980)
The Search
(La Búsqueda), 1949
mixed media on heavy paper laid down on cardboard
7 x 4 1/2 inches

Exhibited in Antonio Gattorno (1904 - 1980)
Romantic Surrealism: Six works from
the 1940's and 1950's, Cernuda Arte,
Coral Gables, FL, Jun. – Oct. 2021,
and illustrated digitally on cernudaarte.com,
exhibitions.